Paula Fox

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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.

Life

Childhood

Paula Fox is the daughter of Cuban-born screenwriter Elsie Fox (nee "De Sola") [ [http://www.wargs.com/other/cobain.html Ancestry of Frances Bean Cobain ] ] 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 Paul and Elsie ended when her mother threw a glass at her.

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.

Works

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"

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"

Memoirs

*2001 "Borrowed Finery"
*2005 "The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe"

Footnotes

See also

*List of Cuban American writers
*List of Famous Cuban-Americans

External links

* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/bookshow/stories/2008/2195004.htm] transcript of interview with Ramona Koval, for The Book Show on ABC Radio National July, 2004

* [http://www.frontstreetbooks.com/apage/main_biopf.htm Paula Fox bio on frontstreetbooks.com]

* [http://www.loggernaut.org/interviews/paulafox/ Jesse Lichtenstein interviews Paula Fox] for "Loggernaut".

* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,981640,00.html A Qualified Optimist, U.K. Guardian, Aida Edemariam, June 21, 2003]