Jane Yolen

About Jane Yolen

She is best known for her young adult fantasy novels Owl Moon, How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight, and Sister Emily's Lightship, which won the Nebula Award. The Devil's Arithmetic, perhaps her most well-known book, is about the Holocaust.

Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American writer who writes fiction, sci-fi and children's books. She is the author or publisher of more than 350 books, the most famous of which is The Devil's Arithmetic, a short story about the Holocaust. Her other works include the newly won "Sister Emily's Lightship", the new "Lost Girls", Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight. She collaborated on productions with her three children, mainly with Adam Stemple. Yolen gave a lecture to Alice G. 1989 Smith Lecture, the first year of the series. This series of lectures is being held at the University of South Florida Information School "to honor the memory of the school's first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and calligraphy. item ". In 2012, she became the first woman to lecture to Andrew Lang. Yolen published her 400th book in early 2021, Bear Outside.

Alma mater	Smith College
Born	February 11, 1939, Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Period	1960s–present
Genre	Fantasy, science fiction, folklore, children's fiction
Occupation	Writer, poet
Notable awards	World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement, 2009

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Trivia

She was the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture.

Jane Yolen before fame

She grew up in three different states: New York, California, and Virginia. Her debut young adult novel, The Bird of Time, was published in 1971, while she was a student at Smith College.

Achievement of Jane Yolen

She gave the Andrew Lang talk for the first time as the first woman.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Jane Yolen family life

With her husband, David W. Stemple, whom she married in 1962, she had three children. She and Stemple made their home in Massachusetts, but they also had a house in Scotland.

Associations of Jane Yolen

She and J.K. Rowling are both authors of young adult and children's books.

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