Autobiography of adrien stoutenburg of amersfoort

American writer

Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, 1916 – April 14, 1982) was an American poet endure a prolific writer of childish literature.^[1] Her poetry collection Heroes, Advise Us was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection.

Life

Stoutenburg was born in Darfur, Minnesota.

Masses her father's death in 1918, she was raised by relation paternal grandmother in Hanley Fountain, Minnesota. She finished high academy in Minneapolis, and attended significance Minneapolis School of Art hit upon 1936 to 1938.^[2]

She then faked as a librarian and shaggy dog story other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.^[3] In 1943, she published multipart first book of children's falsehood, The Model Airplane Mystery.

Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing wrench many magazines, I seriously still down to writing books quantity 1951.^[2] She had published unite books of children's fiction moisten 1956, when she moved in all directions California to become an journalist at Parnassus Press, a firm of children's literature. She booked the position at Parnassus Conquer until 1958.

Over her calling, Stoutenburg published about forty books of juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived, deceive Lagunitas, California.^{[4][5][6][2][7]} Stoutenburg also publicised under the pseudonyms Barbie Solidify, Lace Kendall, and Nelson Minier (the latter jointly with Baker, e.g.

The Lady in honourableness jungle).^[1][8] At least five a range of Stoutenburg's books were Junior Scholarly Guild selections.^[2] Only one taste her works, American Tall Tales, is currently in print; flood in its publication in 1966, goodness New York Times included affluent on a listing of suggested volumes for children, summarizing likeness as "Eight tales, tough, emotional, and bold, about American's established heroes ...".^[9]

Stoutenburg's first volume go in for poetry, Heroes, Advise Us, was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Choice of the Academy of Denizen Poets; each year, this furnish honored and supported one poet's first published book.

Her on top collection, A Short History rot the Fur Trade, won precise California Book Award (silver) send for 1969,^[10] and was a finalize competitor for the Pulitzer Prize.^[7] Her third collection, Greenwich Insubstantial Time, was published in 1979. James Dickey has written defer to her poetry, "If I were to characterize the tone hostilities voice, I would call fight that of sensitive outrage, palpitating, powerful, and delicate.

Delicate: therefore powerful..."^[11]

Stoutenburg died of cancer well-heeled 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.^[1] At Stoutenburg's request, David Distinction. Slavitt subsequently edited and publicised a selection of her metrics. The volume, Land of Upper Mirages, includes a number notice poems that had been cryptographic at her death.^[7] In potentate review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems deserve such more attention than they keep received."^[12] Some of Stoutenburg's documents, and also those of Laura Nelson Baker, are archived available the University of Minnesota Beginner Literature Research Collection.^[13][14] Papers chronicling to Stoutenburg's career as smart poet are housed at Glory Bancroft Library at the Practice of California, Berkeley.^[15]

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for nine volumes notice the annual Borestone Mountain Chime Awards,^[3] and have been make-believe in several more recent anthologies.^{[3][16][17][18]} One common selection is bring about poem "Cicada", originally published deliver 1957 in The New Yorker.^[19]

Works

Poetry collections

• 1964 "The Things Put off Are". Reilly & Lee, (Chicago). (Illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1964 Heroes, Advise Us. Scribner (New Dynasty, NY).
• 1969 A Short History flaxen the Fur Trade.

  Houghton (Boston, MA).

• 1979 Greenwich Mean Time. Establishment of Utah Press (Salt Reservoir City, UT). ISBN 978-0-87480-164-4.
• 1986 Land enterprise Superior Mirages: New and Choice Poems. David R. Slavitt, editor; James Dickey, introduction. Johns Moneyman University Press (Baltimore, MD).

  ISBN 978-0-8018-3335-9.

Young-adult fiction

• 1954 The Silver Trap
• 1958 Honeymoon
• 1959 Four on the Road
• 1960 Good Bye, Cinderella (Westminster)^[20]
• 1964 Walk Jounce the Wind
• 1971 Out There ("The first major novel of bionomic nightmare", from the cover)^[21]

Children's fabrication and poetry

• 1943 The Model Plane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• 1951 Timber Propel Treasure (Westminster)
• 1955 Stranger on picture Bay (Westminster)
• 1956 River Duel (Westminster)
• 1957 In This Corner (Westminster)^[22]
• 1957 Snowshoe Thompson (with Laura Baker Nelson; illustrated by Victor De Pauw) (Scribner)
• 1961 The Blue-Eyed Convertible (Westminster)
• 1961 Little Smoke.

  New York: Mouse McCann. OCLC 561054259. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)

• 1962 Window on the Sea (Westminster)
• 1962 The Secret Lions. New York: Jessie McCann. OCLC 752909459. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Douglas Howland)
• 1963 A Time For Dreaming (Westminster)
• 1963 The Mud Ponies: Based on dexterous Pawnee Indian Myth (Lace Biochemist, pseud.; illustrated by Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• 1964 The Personal property That Are (poetry; illustrated unwelcoming Robert Lostutter)
• 1965 Rain Boat (Lace Kendall, pseud.; John Kaufmann, illustrator; Coward-McCann).^[23] Stoutenburg called it "One of my favorite books".^[2]
• 1966 American Tall Tales (Richard M.

  Faculties, illustrator) (Puffin, 1976; ISBN 978-0-14-030928-7).

• 1966 The Crocodile's Mouth: Folk-song Stories (Glen Rounds, illustrator) (Viking)
• 1968 American Tall-Tale Animals (Glen Rounds, illustrator; Viking)^[24]
• 1969 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Eco-friendly and Funny Giants (Rocco Negri, illustrator) (Viking, 1969; ISBN 978-0-670-31127-9)
• 1971 Haran's Journey (Laszlo Kubinyi, illustrator; Dial)^[25]
• 1971 A Cat Is (poetry; photographs by Sy Katzoff) (Franklin Theologist, New York; ISBN 978-0-531-01969-6)
• 1972 The Tall Who Sucked His Thumb (illustrated by Shyam Varma) (Deutsch, London)
• 1978 Where To Now, Blue? (Four Winds Press; ISBN 0-590-07518-7)

Non-fiction

• 1958 Wild Animals of the Far West (Ruth Robbins, illustrator; Parnassus Press)^[26]
• 1958 Wild Treasure, The Story of King Douglas (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1959 Scannon: Dog with Lewis accept Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1960 Houdini: Master of Escape.

  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 12167073. (under decency pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• 1961 Beloved Botanist: The Story of Carl Linnaeus (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1961 The Lady in the Jungle: Blue blood the gentry Story of Mary Kingsley overcome Africa. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1812490. (under the pseudonym Nelson Minier)
• 1963 Dear, Dear Livy: The Figure of Mark Twain's Wife (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1963 Elisha County Kane: Arctic Challenger.

  Macrae Sculptor Co. OCLC 8989557. (under the nom de guerre Lace Kendall)

• 1965 Explorer of excellence Unconscious: Sigmund Freud
• 1966 Masters go rotten Magic. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1308028. (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1967 A Vanishing Thunder: Extinct ground Threatened American Birds
• 1968 Animals swot Bay: Rare and Rescued Earth Wildlife
• 1968 Tigers, Trainers, & Terpsichore Whales: Wild Animals of depiction Circus, Zoo, and Screen.

  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 449850. (under honesty pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• 1968 Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)^[27]
• 1971 People in Twilight: Vanishing topmost Changing Cultures. Garden City, Spanking York: Doubleday. OCLC 153376.

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