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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paula_FoxPaula Fox - Wikipedia

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   Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books.

   • Occupation: Writer
   • Children: 3; including Linda Carroll

   • Period: 1966–2011
   • Genre: Children's literature; novels, memoirs

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3. www.newyorker.com › culture › cultural-commentRereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” | The New Yorker

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   Mar 9, 2017 · Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters”. By Alexandra Schwartz. March 9, 2017. Paula Fox, the author of more than twenty books, died last week, at the age of ninety-three. PHOTOGRAPH...

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4. www.britannica.com › biography › Paula-FoxPaula Fox | Biography, Novelist, Best Books, Children’s Books ...

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   Apr 18, 2024 · Paula Fox was an American author who wrote books for children and adults using a straightforward writing style that belied the turmoil below the surface. Her keen insight into interpersonal relationships elevated her novels above most popular fiction. Her book The Slave Dancer (1973) won the Newbery Medal in 1974.

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   Who is Paula Fox?

   • Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books.

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   What happened to Paula Fox?

   • After I learned that the writer Paula Fox had died last week, at the age of ninety-three, I took out my copy of “Desperate Characters,” her best-known novel, wary of the temptation to indulge in solipsistic interpretation. “ Desperate Characters ” is partly about gentrification in New York, an inescapable fact of life in the city as we live it now.

   Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” - The New Yorker

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   Who wrote Paula Fox?

   • The writer Tom Bissell, then a young editor at W.W. Norton, read the essay and subsequently organized the reissue of the book (with an introduction by Franzen). It was the second reissue, in fact, but this time it caught on. If you ask me, Jonathan Franzen’s greatest contribution to literature is his late 90s popularization of Paula Fox.

   Odd, Prescient, Intense, Brilliant: Remembering Paula Fox

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   Who were Paula Fox parents?

   • Fox was born in New York City to Paul Hervey Fox, a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who was a heavy drinker, and Elsie de Sola Fox, also a screenwriter. Her parents were not interested in raising a child, and Paula Fox was brought to a foundling home a few days after her birth.

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6. www.nytimes.com › 2017/03/03 › booksPaula Fox, Novelist Who Chronicled Dislocation, Dies at 93

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   Mar 3, 2017 · Paula Fox, a distinguished writer for children and adults whose work illuminated lives filled with loss, dislocation and abandonment, conditions she knew firsthand from a very early age, died...

7. www.nytimes.com › 2001/03/04 › magazineThe Life and Death And Life of Paula Fox - The New York Times

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   Mar 4, 2001 · Melanie Rehak article on novelist Paula Fox, whose books are being reissued 40 years after their first publication; her best-known novel, Desperate Characters, is thought to provide window into...

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9. lithub.com › odd-prescient-intense-brilliantOdd, Prescient, Intense, Brilliant: Remembering Paula Fox

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   Mar 7, 2017 · March 7, 2017. Paula Fox, author of many works of literature for children as well as a handful of brilliant adult novels and two memoirs, died this week in Brooklyn at the age of 93. Famously, though her novels were well-reviewed—particularly her 1970 magnum opus Desperate Characters —her work fell out of print in the early 1990s, and she ...

10. www.theguardian.com › apr › 04Paula Fox obituary | Children and teenagers | The Guardian

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    Apr 5, 2017 · Tue 4 Apr 2017 08.24 EDT. Paula Fox, who has died aged 93, was one of the most admired US children’s authors of the 1970s and 80s. The emotional depth of her stories brought her the Newbery...