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Paula Fox
Paula Fox 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. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. The NYSW Hall of Fame is a project of the Empire State Center for the Book. Her adult novels went out of print in 1992. In the mid nineties she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers.
BornApril 22, 1923, New York City, New York, U.S.
DiedMarch 1, 2017, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1966–1999 (children's lit.)
GenreChildren's literature, novels, memoirs
Notable worksDesperate Characters, The Slave Dancer, Borrowed Finery (memoir)
Notable awardsNewbery Medal, 1974, Hans Christian Andersen Award, 1978
SpouseHoward Bird (1940, divorced), Richard Sigerson (1948, div.), Martin Greenberg
Children3, including Linda Carroll
RelativesElsie Fox (mother), Courtney Love (granddaughter), Frances Bean Cobain, (great-granddaughter) Kurt Cobain (grandson in-law)

About Paula Fox

Memoirist Paula Fox was born on April 22, 1923 in New York, United States (She dies at the age of 93, on March 1, 2017).

She is best known for The Slave Dancer and A Place Apart, two autobiographies and children's novels she wrote in the United States. In 1978, she was awarded the renowned Children's Author Hans Christian Andersen Award.

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Paula Fox before becoming famous

Paula Fox was born in the Zodiac sign Taurus (The Bull), and 1923 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Pig (豬).

She went to Columbia University to study. Maurice's Room, her debut work of children's fiction, was released in 1966.

Achievement of Paula Fox

For A Place Apart, she won the National Book Award for Children's Fiction.

Paula Fox's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

In 1962, she married Martin Greenberg, her third spouse. Her second marriage to Richard Sigerson resulted in the birth of two sons.

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Paula Fox Collabed with

Children's Author Sharon Creech and she were both awarded the prestigious Newbery Medal.

Paula Fox Income & Net worth

Paula Fox's income mainly comes from the work that created her reputation: a memoirist. Information about her net worth in 2024 is being updated as soon as possible by allfamous.org, you can contact to tell us Net Worth of the Paula Fox.

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Latest information about Paula Fox updated on March 10 2023.