Norton Juster
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Norton Juster (born June 2, 1929) is an American architect and author. He is famous primarily for writing children's books; among them The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
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[edit] Biography
Juster wanted to be an architect from childhood on. His father was an architect, and Juster's brother became an architect as well. He served in the United States Navy before settling into his architectural career.
Juster wrote The Phantom Tollbooth in the early 1960s while living in Brooklyn, New York. Jules Feiffer, a neighbor of Juster's, did the illustrations.
Although Juster enjoyed writing, his architectural career remained his primary focus. He was also a teacher.
Juster served as a professor of architecture and environmental design at Hampshire College from its first semester in 1970 until his retirement in 1992.
Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier after Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978.
Juster currently lives in Amherst, Massachusetts with his wife, Jeanne. Although he has retired from architecture, he still writes. His most recent book, The Hello, Goodbye Window, was published May 15, 2005 and won the Caldecott Medal for Chris Raschka's illustration in 2006.
[edit] Books
- The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) (ISBN 0-394-81500-9)
- The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1963) (ISBN 1-58717-066-3)
- Alberic the Wise and Other Stories (1965) (ISBN 0-88708-243-2)
- Stark Naked: A Paranomastic Odyssey (1969) — illustrated by Arnold Roth
- So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women in America 1865-1895 (editor) (1979) (ISBN 0-670-65483-3) — non-fiction
- Otter Nonsense (1982) (ISBN 0-399-20932-8) — illustrated by Eric Carle
- As: A Surfeit of Similes (1989) (ISBN 0-688-08139-8)
- A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America (1996) (ISBN 1-55591-250-8) — non-fiction
- The Hello, Goodbye Window (2005) (ISBN 0-7868-0914-0) — illustrated by Chris Raschka
[edit] Other media
Both The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line were adapted into films by animator Chuck Jones.
The Phantom Tollbooth was also adapted into a musical by Norton Juster and Sheldon Harnick, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music composed by Arnold Black.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ The Phantom Tollbooth Nov 16th - Dec 16th, 2007, Kennedy Center. (Retrieved Nov. 28th, 2007)
