Nancy Willard

Nancy Willard (born June 26, 1936, in Ann Arbor, Michigan) is an award-winning children's author, poet, and novelist. In 1982, she received the Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. She lives currently lives in Poughkeepsie, New York where she lectures at Vassar College.^[1]

Biography

She was educated at the University of Michigan, where she won a Hopwood Award and received a B.A. and a later on a Ph.D. She also studied at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.^[2] Her first novel, Things Invisible to See (1985), is set in her home town of Ann Arbor in the 1940s; two brothers become involved with a paralyzed young woman, and it "ends with a baseball game that anticipates the film Field of Dreams in its player lineup of baseball luminaries. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer said the novel "has the quality of a fairy tale ... a paradigm of life as a Manichean conflict between good and evil.'"^[3]

Awards

• The Devins Memorial Award, 1967
• Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts

Selected bibliography

Children's litertature

• Sailing to Cythera and other Anatole Stories - Book One of the Anatole Trilogy (1974)
• The Island of the Grass King: The Further Adventures of Anatole - Book Two of the Anatole Trilogy (1979)
• Uncle Terrible: More Adventures of Anatole - Book Three of the Anatole Trilogy (1982)
• A Visit to William Blake's Inn: Poems for Innocent and Experienced Travelers (1982), Newbery Medal recipient
• The Nightgown of the Sullen Moon (1983)
• Pish, Posh Said Hieronymus Bosch (1991)
• Beauty and the Beast (1992)
• Simple Pictures are Best (1994)

Poetry

• Skin of Grace (1967)
• Household Tales of Moon and Water (1987)
• Water Walker (1989)
• In the Salt Marsh (2004)

Novels

• Things Invisible to See (1985)

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ [2]
3. ^ Clarence A. Andrews, Michigan in Literature (Wayne State University Press, 1992: ISBN 0814323685), p. 219.

External links

• Poetry Foundation Biography

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Name	Willard, Nancy
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