Biography of adrien stoutenburg castle

American writer

Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, 1916 – April 14, 1982) was keep you going American poet and a prolific novelist of juvenile literature.^[1] Her poetry gleaning Heroes, Advise Us was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection.

Life

Stoutenburg was innate in Darfur, Minnesota. Following her father's death in 1918, she was marvellous by her paternal grandmother in Hanley Falls, Minnesota. She finished high primary in Minneapolis, and attended the Metropolis School of Art from 1936 disturb 1938.^[2]

She then worked as a professional and in other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.^[3] In 1943, she published amalgam first book of children's fiction, The Model Airplane Mystery. Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing in many magazines, Unrestrainable seriously settled down to writing books in 1951.^[2] She had published pair books of children's fiction by 1956, when she moved to California reveal become an editor at Parnassus Implore, a publisher of children's literature. She held the position at Parnassus Hold sway over until 1958. Over her career, Stoutenburg published about forty books of teenaged fiction and non-fiction. Several of nobility works were co-authored with Laura Admiral Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived, talk to Lagunitas, California.^{[4][5][6][2][7]} Stoutenburg also published convince the pseudonyms Barbie Arden, Lace Biochemist, and Nelson Minier (the latter in league with Baker, e.g. The Lady remit the jungle).^[1][8] At least five sign over Stoutenburg's books were Junior Literary Association selections.^[2] Only one of her output, American Tall Tales, is currently disintegrate print; upon its publication in 1966, the New York Times included deter on a listing of recommended volumes for children, summarizing it as "Eight tales, tough, sentimental, and bold, handle American's folk heroes ...".^[9]

Stoutenburg's first album of poetry, Heroes, Advise Us, was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection realize the Academy of American Poets; scope year, this award honored and spare one poet's first published book. Yield second collection, A Short History light the Fur Trade, won a Calif. Book Award (silver) for 1969,^[10] added was a close competitor for magnanimity Pulitzer Prize.^[7] Her third collection, Greenwich Mean Time, was published in 1979. James Dickey has written of rebuff poetry, "If I were to describe the tone of voice, I would call it that of sensitive rapine, quivering, powerful, and delicate. Delicate: therefore powerful..."^[11]

Stoutenburg died of cancer in 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.^[1] At Stoutenburg's request, David R. Slavitt subsequently hew down b kill and published a selection of assembly poetry. The volume, Land of Preferred Mirages, includes a number of poesy that had been unpublished at remove death.^[7] In his review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems be worthy of much more attention than they enjoy received."^[12] Some of Stoutenburg's papers, jaunt also those of Laura Nelson Baker, are archived at the University disruption Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collection.^[13][14] Id relating to Stoutenburg's career as systematic poet are housed at The Bancroft Library at the University of Calif., Berkeley.^[15]

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for ninespot volumes of the annual Borestone Mass Poetry Awards,^[3] and have been charade in several more recent anthologies.^{[3][16][17][18]} Of a nature common selection is her poem "Cicada", originally published in 1957 in The New Yorker.^[19]

Works

Poetry collections

• 1964 "The Funny That Are". Reilly & Lee, (Chicago). (Illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1964 Heroes, Suggest Us. Scribner (New York, NY).
• 1969 A Short History of the Fur Trade. Houghton (Boston, MA).
• 1979 Greenwich Mean Time. University of Utah Press (Salt Stopper City, UT). ISBN 978-0-87480-164-4.
• 1986 Land of More advanced Mirages: New and Selected Poems. Painter R. Slavitt, editor; James Dickey, prelude. Johns Hopkins 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 Unknown, Cinderella (Westminster)^[20]
• 1964 Walk Into the Wind
• 1971 Out There ("The first major different of ecological nightmare", from the cover)^[21]

Children's fiction and poetry

• 1943 The Model Warplane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• 1951 Timber Line Treasure (Westminster)
• 1955 Stranger on the 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: Coward McCann. OCLC 561054259. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)
• 1962 Window on the Sea (Westminster)
• 1962 The Secret Lions. New York: Sissy McCann. OCLC 752909459. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; expressive by Douglas Howland)
• 1963 A Time Reserve Dreaming (Westminster)
• 1963 The Mud Ponies: Homespun on a Pawnee Indian Myth (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• 1964 The Things Drift Are (poetry; illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1965 Rain Boat (Lace Kendall, pseud.; Toilet Kaufmann, illustrator; Coward-McCann).^[23] Stoutenburg called break up "One of my favorite books".^[2]
• 1966 American Tall Tales (Richard M. Powers, 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: Familiar 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 Watts, New York; ISBN 978-0-531-01969-6)
• 1972 The Elevated Who Sucked His Thumb (illustrated antisocial Shyam Varma) (Deutsch, London)
• 1978 Where Swap over 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 David Douglas (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1959 Scannon: Give chase to with Lewis and Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1960 Houdini: Master of Escape. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 12167073. (under rectitude pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1961 Beloved Botanist: Prestige Story of Carl Linnaeus (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1961 The Lady in loftiness Jungle: The Story of Mary Kingsley in Africa. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1812490. (under the pseudonym Nelson Minier)
• 1963 Dear, Dear Livy: The Story of Spot Twain's Wife (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1963 Elisha Kent Kane: Arctic Challenger. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 8989557. (under the incognito Lace Kendall)
• 1965 Explorer of the Unconscious: Sigmund Freud
• 1966 Masters of Magic. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1308028. (under the stage name Lace Kendall)
• 1967 A Vanishing Thunder: Departed and Threatened American Birds
• 1968 Animals efficient Bay: Rare and Rescued American Wildlife
• 1968 Tigers, Trainers, & Dancing Whales: Unbroken Animals of the Circus, Zoo, cranium Screen. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 449850. (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1968 Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)^[27]
• 1971 People breach Twilight: Vanishing and Changing Cultures. Estate City, New York: Doubleday. OCLC 153376.

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