Norton Juster

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Norton Juster (born June 2, 1929) is an American academic, architect, and well-known writer.

He is best known as a children's book author, especially for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.

Early life

Juster was born in Brooklyn on June 2, 1929. Both his parents were Jewish and immigrated to the United States. Samuel Juster, his father, was born in Romania and trained as an architect by correspondence. Minnie Silberman, his mother, was of Polish Jewish descent. Howard Howard, Howard's brother, became an architect as well. Juster studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a bachelor's degree in 1952. At the University of Liverpool, he continued to investigate city planning.

Later life

During his later years, Juster lived in Massachusetts. Jeanne, his wife, died in October 2018 after 54 years of marriage. Despite resigning from architecture, he continued to write for many years. In 2006, Chris Raschka's illustration, The Hello, Goodbye Window, was published May 15, 2005. In 2008, Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie was published. He teamed up again with Feiffer for The Odious Ogre two years later.

Juster died in Northampton, Massachusetts, on March 8, 2021. He was 91 years old and died as a result of a stroke.

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Career

In 1954, Juster joined the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy and rose to the rank of lieutenant junior grade. During one tour to combat boredom, he began to write and illustrate a tale for children, but the commanding officer later reprimanded him for it. xvii. xvii Also, Juster wrote "The Passing of Irving," an unpublished satirical fairy tale. xviii Later, in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, as a way to combat boredom, he created the Naval News Service, a non-existent military newspaper, in an attempt to request interviews with beautiful women. It was so good that a neighbor came along to help as his assistant. His next move was to make the "Garibaldi Society" (inspired by a statue in Washington Square Park), whose aim was to refuse anyone who applied for membership, designing an impressive logo, application, and rejection letter. When taking out the garbage, he met Jules Feiffer.

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Juster, who was discharged from the Navy and worked for a Manhattan architectural firm, about six months after meeting Feiffer, Juster. He worked part-time teaching as well as working in other fields. On State Street, Juster, Feiffer, and another friend rented an apartment. On Feiffer, the comedian had to resort to pulling pranks every so often. The Phantom Tollbooth, xxiii Juster's children's book, was released in 1961, with Feiffer doing the drawings. This was followed by The Dot and the Line (1963), which became a standard textbook in classrooms around the country. Juster went on to write Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys (1965), Stark Naked: A Paraphrasedoutput (1982), As Silly as Bees (1998), and others. He also published The Women of Rural America in 1996, based on his personal experience of being on a Massachusetts farm.

Although Juster loved writing, his architectural career remained his primary focus. He served at Hampshire College as a professor of architecture and environmental design from 1970 to 1992, before he resigned. In 1970, he co-founded Juster Pope Associates, a small architectural firm in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts. Since Jack Frazier joined the firm in 1978, the firm was renamed Juster Pope Frazier.

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