Nancy Willard
Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York where she lectures at Vassar College.[1]
Biography
She was educated at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and received a B.A. and a later on a Ph.D. She also studied at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.[2] Her first novel, Things Invisible to See (1985), is set in her home town of Ann Arbor in the 1940s; two brothers become involved with a paralyzed young woman, and it "ends with a baseball game that anticipates the film Field of Dreams in its player lineup of baseball luminaries. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer said the novel "has the quality of a fairy tale ... a paradigm of life as a Manichean conflict between good and evil.'"[3]
Awards
- The Devins Memorial Award, 1967
- Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
Selected bibliography
Children's litertature
- Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories - Book One of the Anatole Trilogy (1974)
- The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole - Book Two of the Anatole Trilogy (1979)
- Uncle Terrible: More Adventures of Anatole - Book Three of the Anatole Trilogy (1982)
- A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1982), Newbery Medal recipient
- The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon (1983)
- Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch (1991)
- Beauty and the Beast (1992)
- Simple Pictures are Best (1994)
Poetry
- Skin of Grace (1967)
- Household Tales of Moon and Water (1987)
- Water Walker (1989)
- In the Salt Marsh (2004)
Novels
- Things Invisible to See (1985)
References
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- ^ Clarence A. Andrews, Michigan in Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1992: ISBN 0814323685), p. 219.
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Nancy Margret Willard |
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