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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books.
Mar 9, 2017 · After I learned that the writer Paula Fox had died last week, at the age of ninety-three, I took out my copy of “Desperate Characters,” her best-known novel, wary of the temptation to indulge ...
- Alexandra Schwartz
Paula Fox (born April 22, 1923, Manhattan, New York, U.S.—died March 1, 2017, Brooklyn, New York) was an American author who wrote books for children and adults using a straightforward writing style that belied the turmoil below the surface.
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Mar 7, 2017 · Paula Fox, author of many works of literature for children as well as a handful of brilliant adult novels and two memoirs, died this week in Brooklyn at the age of 93.
Mar 4, 2001 · The author's name was Paula Fox. The story -- a ruthless, elegant portrayal of the social paranoia of a bourgeois Brooklyn couple named Sophie and Otto Bentwood --...
May 27, 2006 · First published in 1970, Paula Fox's Desperate Characters has recently been "rediscovered" and much acclaimed by the literary elite (in the introduction to this edition, Jonathan Franzen says that when he first read the book in 1991 he "fell in love with it.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Desperate Characters. Paula Fox, Jonathan Franzen (Introduction) 3.53. 8,780 ratings1,118 reviews. Otto and Sophie Bentwood live in a changing neighborhood in Brooklyn. Their stainless-steel kitchen is newly installed, and their Mercedes is parked curbside.
