Roderick Townley

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Roderick Townley

Born:	June 1942
Occupation:	Writer
Genres:	Young Adult fiction, Poetry, Literary Criticism Adult Fiction
Website:	www.RoderickTownley.com

Roderick Townley (born June 7, 1942) is an American author of juvenile, young adult, and adult books, including books of poetry, nonfiction, and literary criticism. In 2001, he began the Sylvie Cycle, a metafictional series about the spunky, fictional Princess Sylvie who lives her life in a book.

[edit] Biography

Roderick Townley has published over a dozen books, comprising poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism. The Sylvie Cycle, his trilogy of middle grade novels, has been widely praised and appears in several foreign editions, as well as in large print and audio versions. He has also written two young adult novels, Sky (Atheneum, 2004), and The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations (Atheneum, 2007).

Mr. Townley taught in Chile on a Fulbright, worked in New York as an editor, and now writes from his home in Kansas. Along the way, he has won a number of honors, including the Peregrine Prize for Short Fiction, the Thorpe Menn Award, the Kansas Arts Commission Fellowship in Fiction, the Governor’s Arts Award, and First Prize in two contests sponsored by The Academy of American Poets. His novel, The Great Good Thing (the first volume in The Sylvie Cycle), was a Top Ten Book Sense Pick and has been optioned for film. Mr. Townley has two children, Jesse and Grace, and is married to poet and yoga instructor, Wyatt Townley.

[edit] Bibliography

Poetry

Three Musicians (1978)

Final Approach (1986)

Literary Criticism

The Early Poetry of William Carlos Williams (1975)

Night Errands: How Poets Use Dreams (1998)

Adult Fiction

Minor Gods, St. Martin’s Press (1977)

Young Adult

The Great Good Thing (2001)

Into The Labyrinth (2002)

Sky (2004)

The Constellation of Sylvie (2006)

The Red Thread (2007)

[edit] External Links/References

Roderick Townley's Official Webpage

Simon & Schuster: Roderick Townley

Kansas Poets: Roderick Townley