Paula Fox

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Paula Fox

Born	April 22, 1923 (age 85)
Nationality	USA
Genres	novel, memoir
Notable work(s)	The Slave Dancer
Notable award(s)	Newbery Medal; Hans Christian Andersen Medal
Relative(s)	Elsie Fox; Courtney Love

Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923) is an American author of novels for adults and children and two memoirs. Her novel The Slave Dancer (1973) received the Newbery Medal in 1974; and in 1978, she was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Medal.

1 Life
- 1.1 Childhood
- 1.2 Through adulthood
2 Works
3 Footnotes
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Life

[edit] Childhood

Paula Fox is the daughter of Cuban-born screenwriter Elsie Fox (nee "De Sola")^[1] and novelist Paul Hervey Fox. She was given up for adoption as an infant and was passed among various relatives and friends. In her 2001 memoir Borrowed Finery, Fox recalled that at her first meeting with her mother, at age five, "I sensed that if she could have hidden the act she would have killed me." Not long after, another visit with Paula and Elsie ended when her mother threw a glass at her.

[edit] Through adulthood

A teenage marriage produced a daughter, Linda, in 1944. However, given the tumultuous relationship with her own biological parents, she gave the child up for adoption. Fox later attended Columbia University, married the literary critic and translator Martin Greenberg, raised two sons, taught, and began to write.

The daughter Fox gave up for adoption, Linda Carroll, is the mother of controversial musician Courtney Love; Fox is, therefore, Love's biological maternal grandmother.

[edit] Works

[edit] Adult Fiction

1967 Poor George
1970 Desperate Characters
1972 The Western Coast
1976 The Widow’s Children
1984 A Servant’s Tale
1990 The God of Nightmares

[edit] Children's Fiction

1966 Maurice’s Room
1967 How Many Miles to Babylon? (illustrated by Paul Giovanopoulos)
1967 A Likely Place (illustrated by Edward Ardizzone)
1968 Dear Prosper (illustrated by Steve McLachlin)
1968 The Stone-Faced Boy (illustrated by Donald A. Mackay)
1969 Hungry Fred (illustrated by Rosemary Wells)
1969 The King’s Falcon (illustrated by Eros Keith)
1969 Portrait of Ivan (illustrated by Saul Lambert)
1970 Blowfish Live in the Sea
1973 Good Ethan (illustrated by Arnold Lobel)
1973 The Slave Dancer (illustrated by Eros Keith)
1978 The Little Swineherd and Other Tales (1996 edition illustrated by Robert Byrd)
1980 A Place Apart
1984 One-Eyed Cat
1986 The Moonlight Man
1987 Lily and the Lost Boy (also published as The Lost Boy)
1988 The Village By the Sea (also published as In a Place of Danger)
1991 Monkey Island
1993 Western Wind
1995 The Eagle Kite (also published as The Gathering Darkness)
1997 Radiance Descending
1999 Amzat and His Brothers: Three Italian Tales