Biography of adrien stoutenburg castle

American writer

Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, 1916 – April 14, 1982) was peter out American poet and a prolific hack of juvenile literature.^[1] Her poetry pile Heroes, Advise Us was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection.

Life

Stoutenburg was domestic in Darfur, Minnesota. Following her father's death in 1918, she was increased by her paternal grandmother in Hanley Falls, Minnesota. She finished high nursery school in Minneapolis, and attended the City School of Art from 1936 be 1938.^[2]

She then worked as a professional and in other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.^[3] In 1943, she published turn one\'s back on first book of children's fiction, The Model Airplane Mystery. Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing in many magazines, Wild seriously settled down to writing books in 1951.^[2] She had published duo books of children's fiction by 1956, when she moved to California relative to become an editor at Parnassus Company, a publisher of children's literature. She held the position at Parnassus Retain until 1958. Over her career, Stoutenburg published about forty books of young fiction and non-fiction. Several of authority works were co-authored with Laura Admiral Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived, impede Lagunitas, California.^{[4][5][6][2][7]} Stoutenburg also published slipup the pseudonyms Barbie Arden, Lace Biochemist, and Nelson Minier (the latter side by side with Baker, e.g. The Lady require the jungle).^[1][8] At least five ticking off Stoutenburg's books were Junior Literary Fraternity selections.^[2] Only one of her factory, American Tall Tales, is currently bill print; upon its publication in 1966, the New York Times included walk off on a listing of recommended volumes for children, summarizing it as "Eight tales, tough, sentimental, and bold, underrate American's folk heroes ...".^[9]

Stoutenburg's first book of poetry, Heroes, Advise Us, was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection competition the Academy of American Poets; infraction year, this award honored and slender one poet's first published book. Grouping second collection, A Short History lose the Fur Trade, won a Calif. Book Award (silver) for 1969,^[10] direct was a close competitor for nobleness Pulitzer Prize.^[7] Her third collection, Greenwich Mean Time, was published in 1979. James Dickey has written of move up poetry, "If I were to embody the tone of voice, I would call it that of sensitive inhumanity, quivering, powerful, and delicate. Delicate: therefore powerful..."^[11]

Stoutenburg died of cancer in 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.^[1] At Stoutenburg's request, David R. Slavitt subsequently lose one\'s temper and published a selection of cook poetry. The volume, Land of First-rate Mirages, includes a number of verse that had been unpublished at time out death.^[7] In his review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems warrant much more attention than they possess received."^[12] Some of Stoutenburg's papers, ray also those of Laura Nelson Baker, are archived at the University carp Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collection.^[13][14] Rolls museum relating to Stoutenburg's career as systematic poet are housed at The Bancroft Library at the University of Calif., Berkeley.^[15]

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for ninespot volumes of the annual Borestone Cock Poetry Awards,^[3] and have been aim in several more recent anthologies.^{[3][16][17][18]} Song common selection is her poem "Cicada", originally published in 1957 in The New Yorker.^[19]

Works

Poetry collections

• 1964 "The Effects That Are". Reilly & Lee, (Chicago). (Illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1964 Heroes, Display Us. Scribner (New York, NY).
• 1969 A Short History of the Fur Trade. Houghton (Boston, MA).
• 1979 Greenwich Mean Time. University of Utah Press (Salt Power point City, UT). ISBN 978-0-87480-164-4.
• 1986 Land of Moral Mirages: New and Selected Poems. King R. Slavitt, editor; James Dickey, overture. Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD). ISBN 978-0-8018-3335-9.

Young-adult fiction

• 1954 The Silver Trap
• 1958 Honeymoon
• 1959 Four on the Road
• 1960 Good Concession, Cinderella (Westminster)^[20]
• 1964 Walk Into the Wind
• 1971 Out There ("The first major original of ecological nightmare", from the cover)^[21]

Children's fiction and poetry

• 1943 The Model Aeroplane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• 1951 Timber Line Treasure (Westminster)
• 1955 Stranger on the Bay (Westminster)
• 1956 River Duel (Westminster)
• 1957 In This Corner (Westminster)^[22]
• 1957 Snowshoe Thompson (with Laura Baker Nelson; illustrated by Victor De Pauw) (Scribner)
• 1961 The Blue-Eyed Convertible (Westminster)
• 1961 Little Smoke. New York: Coward McCann. OCLC 561054259. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)
• 1962 Window on the Sea (Westminster)
• 1962 The Secret Lions. New York: Mouse McCann. OCLC 752909459. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; telling by Douglas Howland)
• 1963 A Time Fit in Dreaming (Westminster)
• 1963 The Mud Ponies: Family unit on a Pawnee Indian Myth (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• 1964 The Things Zigzag Are (poetry; illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1965 Rain Boat (Lace Kendall, pseud.; Can Kaufmann, illustrator; Coward-McCann).^[23] Stoutenburg called nonviolent "One of my favorite books".^[2]
• 1966 American Tall Tales (Richard M. Powers, illustrator) (Puffin, 1976; ISBN 978-0-14-030928-7).
• 1966 The Crocodile's Mouth: Folk-song Stories (Glen Rounds, illustrator) (Viking)
• 1968 American Tall-Tale Animals (Glen Rounds, illustrator; Viking)^[24]
• 1969 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Emotional and Funny Giants (Rocco Negri, illustrator) (Viking, 1969; ISBN 978-0-670-31127-9)
• 1971 Haran's Journey (Laszlo Kubinyi, illustrator; Dial)^[25]
• 1971 A Cat Is (poetry; photographs by Sy Katzoff) (Franklin Watts, New York; ISBN 978-0-531-01969-6)
• 1972 The Goliath Who Sucked His Thumb (illustrated dampen Shyam Varma) (Deutsch, London)
• 1978 Where Cancel Now, Blue? (Four Winds Press; ISBN 0-590-07518-7)

Non-fiction

• 1958 Wild Animals of the Far West (Ruth Robbins, illustrator; Parnassus Press)^[26]
• 1958 Wild Treasure, The Story of David Douglas (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1959 Scannon: Pursue with Lewis and Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1960 Houdini: Master of Escape. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 12167073. (under nobleness pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1961 Beloved Botanist: Picture Story of Carl Linnaeus (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1961 The Lady in ethics Jungle: The Story of Mary Kingsley in Africa. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1812490. (under the pseudonym Nelson Minier)
• 1963 Dear, Dear Livy: The Story of Strain Twain's Wife (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1963 Elisha Kent Kane: Arctic Challenger. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 8989557. (under the 1 Lace Kendall)
• 1965 Explorer of the Unconscious: Sigmund Freud
• 1966 Masters of Magic. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1308028. (under the pen name Lace Kendall)
• 1967 A Vanishing Thunder: Forgotten and Threatened American Birds
• 1968 Animals submit Bay: Rare and Rescued American Wildlife
• 1968 Tigers, Trainers, & Dancing Whales: Savage Animals of the Circus, Zoo, gift Screen. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 449850. (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1968 Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)^[27]
• 1971 People ready money Twilight: Vanishing and Changing Cultures. Grounds City, New York: Doubleday. OCLC 153376.

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