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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.
Paula Fox was an American author who wrote books for children and adults using a straightforward writing style that belied the turmoil below the surface. Her keen insight into interpersonal relationships elevated her novels above most popular fiction.
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...
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 3, 2017 · Paula Fox, a distinguished writer for children and adults whose work illuminated lives filled with loss, dislocation and abandonment, conditions she knew firsthand from a very early age, died on...
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 -- mesmerized Franzen, so...
Mar 4, 2017 · By The Associated Press. NEW YORK — Paula Fox, a prize-winning author who created high art out of imagined chaos in such novels as "Poor George" and "Desperate Characters" and out...
Mar 7, 2017 · Paula Fox, prize-winning adult and children’s author, chronicler of abandonment, loss and desperation — of what happens when things break down — died last week at 93....
Mar 4, 2017 · Paula Fox, a prizewinning author who created high art out of imagined chaos in such novels as “Poor George” and “Desperate Characters” and out of the real-life upheavals in her memoir “Borrowed...
Jun 6, 2018 · Paula Fox. Died on March 1, 2017 at age 93. Ms. Fox was a distinguished writer for children and adults whose work illuminated lives filled with loss, dislocation and abandonment, conditions she...
