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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Paula_FoxPaula Fox - Wikipedia

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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.

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3. www.britannica.com › biography › Paula-FoxPaula Fox | Biography, Novelist, Best Books, Children’s Books ...

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   May 13, 2024 · 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.

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4. www.newyorker.com › culture › cultural-commentRereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” | The New Yorker

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   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...

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5. www.nytimes.com › 2017/03/03 › booksPaula Fox, Novelist Who Chronicled Dislocation, Dies at 93

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   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...

6. www.theguardian.com › books › 2017Paula Fox obituary | Children and teenagers | The Guardian

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   Apr 5, 2017 · Paula Fox, who has died aged 93, was one of the most admired US children’s authors of the 1970s and 80s. The emotional depth of her stories brought her the Newbery medal in 1974 for The Slave...

7. www.nytimes.com › 2001/03/04 › magazineThe Life and Death And Life of Paula Fox - The New York Times

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   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...

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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.

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   What happened to Paula Fox?

   • 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 in solipsistic interpretation. “ Desperate Characters ” is partly about gentrification in New York, an inescapable fact of life in the city as we live it now.

   Rereading Paula Fox’s “Desperate Characters” - The New Yorker

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   Who wrote Paula Fox?

   • The writer Tom Bissell, then a young editor at W.W. Norton, read the essay and subsequently organized the reissue of the book (with an introduction by Franzen). It was the second reissue, in fact, but this time it caught on. If you ask me, Jonathan Franzen’s greatest contribution to literature is his late 90s popularization of Paula Fox.

   Odd, Prescient, Intense, Brilliant: Remembering Paula Fox

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   Who were Paula Fox parents?

   • Fox was born in New York City to Paul Hervey Fox, a novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who was a heavy drinker, and Elsie de Sola Fox, also a screenwriter. Her parents were not interested in raising a child, and Paula Fox was brought to a foundling home a few days after her birth.

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9. lithub.com › odd-prescient-intense-brilliantOdd, Prescient, Intense, Brilliant: Remembering Paula Fox

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   Mar 7, 2017 · Paula Fox, who died in 2017 at 93, was a beloved novelist and memoirist, known for her sharp and insightful works of fiction. Read tributes from Jonathan Franzen, Lynne Tillman, Andrea Barrett, and others who praised her style, intelligence, and passion.