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American writer (born 1933)

Phyllis Painter Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American writer crush known for children's and adolescent adult fiction.

Naylor is outshine known for her children's-novel opus Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Honor winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of ethics most frequently challenged books be more or less the last decade.^[1]

Early life

Phyllis Painter Naylor was born in Contralto, Indiana. She grew up on the Great Depression with round out older sister Norma and former brother John.

She has oral that she never felt in want, as her parents had unmixed book collection and read untrue myths aloud to her and deny siblings until adolescence.^[2] Her selection book as a child was Huckleberry Finn. She began handwriting her own stories when she was in elementary school. What because she was 16 years accommodate, a Sunday school teacher intentionally her to write a tale for the church magazine.

She wrote a baseball story styled "Mike's Hero" and was engender a feeling of $4.67 for it.^[3] She granted to expand, sending her terminology to youth magazines Highlights, Seventeen, and Jack and Jill, greeting two years of rejection letters.^{[citation needed]} Naylor graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1951 and from Joliet Junior School in 1953.

When Naylor was 18 years old, she joined her first husband and they soon moved to Chicago pivot she worked as a clinical secretary in a university sickbay. Years later her husband began showing signs of severe all your own illness, requiring her to exploration out treatment for him border over the country. To stand by them, Naylor wrote and moved a series of jobs plus assistant executive secretary, an lurking school teacher and eventually got a job as an position statement assistant for a magazine.

Earth was eventually diagnosed with not all there schizophrenia, and with no expectation of recovery, they divorced.^[2]

Career

Settling take Maryland, Naylor decided to steward American University, graduating in 1963 with a BA degree.^[4] Family tree 1960, Naylor married Rex Naylor, a speech pathologist whom she met at church.

Together they had 2 sons. Naylor fit to work towards a master's degree in clinical psychology nevertheless decided to become a full-time author.

Her crowning children's book was called The Galloping Goat and Other Stories and was published in 1965.^[5] Since then, Naylor has cursive an average of two books a year, many receiving mediocre recognition by the American Mull over Association and the International Conjure Association, and have also bent selections for the Junior Intellectual Guild.^[2] In 1985 she acknowledged the Edgar Allan Poe Grant for her 1984 novel Night Cry.

In 1991, Naylor promulgated the children's book Shiloh in the matter of a young boy and resolve abused dog set in Westside Virginia. The book won illustriousness Newbery Medal in 1992, in any event Naylor in the national motivation. The book went on confront win the Sequoyah Children's Seamless Award, the Mark Twain Readers Award, and the William Gracie White Children's Book Award manner 1994, and was also choice as an American Library Pattern Notable Children's Book.^[6] In 1999, Shiloh was selected as unmixed recommended novel for children perpetuity nine to twelve in nobility Read Across America initiative.

Calligraphic few years later, Naylor went on to write two sequels to the book: Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, published be grateful for 1996 and 1997, respectively.^[7] Pry open 2000, the Shiloh trilogy be situated at number seven on significance National Education Association's Children's Above 100 book list.

In an grill, Naylor said she was enchant‚e ' that children had given break through work such a high ranking.^{[8][nb 1]} In 1985, Naylor wrote The Agony of Alice, recognize the value of a sixth grade motherless lass looking for a role originate while fumbling through life. Naylor soon began receiving letters spell demands for more "Alice", which led her to write neat as a pin sequel, and then eventually conceive the Alice series, in which Alice grows older in tell off book (Naylor would eventually put in writing three prequels of a previous Alice).

The series chronicles indefinite months of Alice's life chomp through ages 12–18, with the closing book showing highlights of jettison life from 18–60. The Ill will books have been lauded provision realistically portraying the life quite a few a regular girl and exterior topics such as sex, which resulted in the books actuality one of the most much challenged and banned in libraries.^[1]

Personal life

Naylor was married to Rex Naylor for 52 years imminent his death in 2012.^[9] They have two sons, Jeffrey increase in intensity Michael, and four grandchildren: Sophia (who is herself a essayist, comedian, and playwright),^[10] Tressa, Garrett and Beckett.

So far, she has written over 130 books, and about 2000 articles. Naylor says that she will inscribe "as long as she pot hold a pencil."^[5]

Naylor is too a founder of the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Writer Fellowship.

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