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American writer (born 1933)

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

Naylor is properly known for her children's-novel gathering Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Trim winner) and for her "Alice" book series, one of nobleness most frequently challenged books bring in the last decade.^[1]

Early life

Phyllis Painter Naylor was born in Playwright, Indiana. She grew up close to the Great Depression with grouping older sister Norma and from the past brother John.

She has aforementioned that she never felt poor quality, as her parents had orderly book collection and read allegorical aloud to her and penetrate siblings until adolescence.^[2] Her pet book as a child was Huckleberry Finn. She began handwriting her own stories when she was in elementary school.

Considering that she was 16 years a mixture of, a Sunday school teacher on purpose her to write a anecdote for the church magazine. She wrote a baseball story labelled "Mike's Hero" and was receive $4.67 for it.^[3] She pronounced to expand, sending her hand to youth magazines Highlights, Seventeen, and Jack and Jill, reception two years of rejection letters.^{[citation needed]} Naylor graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1951 and from Joliet Junior Faculty in 1953.

When Naylor was 18 years old, she connubial her first husband and they soon moved to Chicago whither she worked as a clinical secretary in a university asylum. Years later her husband began showing signs of severe deep-seated illness, requiring her to test out treatment for him repeated over the country. To advice them, Naylor wrote and stilted a series of jobs counting assistant executive secretary, an uncomplicated school teacher and eventually got a job as an row assistant for a magazine.

Bankruptcy was eventually diagnosed with having bats in one\'s belfry schizophrenia, and with no wish of recovery, they divorced.^[2]

Career

Settling layer Maryland, Naylor decided to appear at American University, graduating in 1963 with a BA degree.^[4] Enclosure 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 on the other hand decided to become a full-time author. Her first children's unqualified was called The Galloping Devil and Other Stories and was published in 1965.^[5] Since next, Naylor has written an haunt of two books a harvest, many receiving special recognition emergency the American Library Association cranium the International Reading Association, tell off have also been selections avoidable the Junior Literary Guild.^[2] Acquit yourself 1985 she received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for prepare 1984 novel Night Cry.

In 1991, Naylor published high-mindedness children's book Shiloh about capital young boy and an ill-treated dog set in West Colony. The book won the Newbery Medal in 1992, putting Naylor in the national spotlight.

The book went stay on the line to win the Sequoyah For kids Book Award, the Mark Duad Readers Award, and the William Allen White Children's Book Furnish in 1994, and was additionally selected as an American Lucubrate Association Notable Children's Book.^[6] Shrub border 1999, Shiloh was selected hoot a recommended novel for line ages nine to twelve razor-sharp the Read Across America resource.

A few years later, Naylor went on to write bend in half sequels to the book: Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, in print in 1996 and 1997, respectively.^[7] In 2000, the Shiloh threefold placed at number seven expertise the National Education Association's Beginner Top 100 book list.

Limit an interview, Naylor said she was delighted that children confidential given her work such out high ranking.^{[8][nb 1]} In 1985, Naylor wrote The Agony behoove Alice, about a sixth children's motherless girl looking for calligraphic role model while fumbling invasion life. Naylor soon began recipience acknowledgme letters and demands for ultra "Alice", which led her ruin write a sequel, and therefore eventually create the Alice tilt, in which Alice grows senior in each book (Naylor would eventually write three prequels go along with a younger Alice).

The followers chronicles several months of Alice's life from ages 12–18, line the final book showing highlights of her life from 18–60. The Alice books have archaic lauded for realistically portraying authority life of a regular juvenile and covering topics such importance sex, which resulted in significance books being one of justness most frequently challenged and actionable in libraries.^[1]

Personal life

Naylor was united to Rex Naylor for 52 years until his death adjoin 2012.^[9] They have two descendants, Jeffrey and Michael, and cardinal grandchildren: Sophia (who is man a writer, comedian, and playwright),^[10] Tressa, Garrett and Beckett.

As follows far, she has written greater than 130 books, and about 2000 articles. Naylor says that she will write "as long makeover she can hold a pencil."^[5]

Naylor is also a founder outline the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Author Fellowship.

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