Paula Fox
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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of books for adults and children as well as two memoirs.
In 1978, she received the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award for a children's book writer.
She has received several awards for her children's books, including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her book The Slave Dancer; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for A Portrait of Ivan (1969) in its German-language edition Ein Bild von Ivan.
The Empire State Center for the Book's Project The NYSW Hall of Fame is a tribute to the founders of the Empire State Center for the Book.
In 1992, her adult novels were out of print.
As her adult fiction was embraced by a new generation of American writers in the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival.
Early life
Paula Fox was born in New York City on April 22, 1923. Elsie De Sola, a Cuban and a screenwriter, was her mother. Paul Hervey Fox, her father, produced screenplays and taught English. With his second wife, Mary, he had 3 sons and a daughter after he divorced Elsie.
Elsie De Sola Fox rejected her daughter Paula at birth and left her and Paul in a foundling home. Candelaria de Sola, her maternal grandmother who was visiting New York City temporarily, rescued her and was sent around Florida, Cuba, and the United States. Candelaria gave the baby to Reverend Elwood Corning and his bedridden mother in Balmville, New York, who were unable to provide a home herself.
Corning treated Fox with compassion and taught her essential lessons. When her parents first visited her at age five, she was treated as a prisoner of war. The reunion was so traumatic that she wrote in her book Borrowed Finery, "I had a feeling that if she had avoided the act she would have killed me."
Fox was living in the household of well-known acting coach Stella Adler in 1944 and became friends with Marlon Brando, another of Adler's students who was living there. Linda Carroll, a young girl, was pregnant and gave the infant up for adoption. Brando is apparently Carroll's father, according to persistent rumors, although neither Brando nor Fox have weighed in on the matter. Courtney Love, the mother of musician Courtney Love, is Carroll, who worked as an author and psychotherapist. Frances Bean Cobain, a visual artist, is Fox's great-granddaughter.
Career
Fox attended the Columbia University School of General Studies from 1955-58 and married Richard Sigerson, by whom she had two sons. Martin Greenberg, a literary scholar and translator, followed her in teaching and tutoring troubled children for years. Poor George, a cynical schoolteacher who finds meaning—and loss—in mentoring a vagrant adolescent. The book was well received (Bernard Bergonzi in the New York Review of Books naming it as "the best novel I've read in a long time") but it fell short of expectations, a pattern that all her adult novels would follow. The desperate characters appeared next, with Alfred Kazin describing it as a "brilliant job" and "quite tragic," while Lionel Trilling's description of it as "a reserved and beautifully realized book" came next. All six of her books were out of print by 1992.
In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame. The Empire State Center for the Book's Writer's Hall of Fame is a program of the Empire State Center for the Book. Jonathan Franzen, a writer who noticed that some of her books were re-issued, was her advocate.
On March 1, 2017, Fox died in Brooklyn at the age of 93.