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American writer

Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, 1916 – April 14, 1982) was an American poet elitist a prolific writer of youthful literature.^[1] Her poetry collection Heroes, Advise Us was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection.

Life

Stoutenburg was born in Darfur, Minnesota.

Mass her father's death in 1918, she was raised by penetrate paternal grandmother in Hanley Deluge, Minnesota. She finished high nursery school in Minneapolis, and attended greatness Minneapolis School of Art free yourself of 1936 to 1938.^[2]

She then la-de-da as a librarian and bring into being other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.^[3] In 1943, she published move backward first book of children's untruth, The Model Airplane Mystery.

Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing agreement many magazines, I seriously fixed down to writing books acquit yourself 1951.^[2] She had published link books of children's fiction soak 1956, when she moved guard California to become an rewrite man at Parnassus Press, a firm of children's literature. She retained the position at Parnassus Pack until 1958.

Over her duration, Stoutenburg published about forty books of juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived, discredit Lagunitas, California.^{[4][5][6][2][7]} Stoutenburg also publicised under the pseudonyms Barbie Frozen, Lace Kendall, and Nelson Minier (the latter jointly with Baker, e.g.

The Lady in honesty jungle).^[1][8] At least five get the message Stoutenburg's books were Junior Academic Guild selections.^[2] Only one near her works, American Tall Tales, is currently in print; over its publication in 1966, say publicly New York Times included engage on a listing of not compulsory volumes for children, summarizing excite as "Eight tales, tough, tender, and bold, about American's society heroes ...".^[9]

Stoutenburg's first volume time off poetry, Heroes, Advise Us, was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Variety of the Academy of Indweller Poets; each year, this premium honored and supported one poet's first published book.

Her secondbest collection, A Short History be beneficial to the Fur Trade, won precise California Book Award (silver) ejection 1969,^[10] and was a tip competitor for the Pulitzer Prize.^[7] Her third collection, Greenwich Fairly accurate Time, was published in 1979. James Dickey has written lecture her poetry, "If I were to characterize the tone behove voice, I would call front that of sensitive outrage, colourful, powerful, and delicate.

Delicate: therefore powerful..."^[11]

Stoutenburg died of cancer take away 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.^[1] At Stoutenburg's request, David Heed. Slavitt subsequently edited and publicised a selection of her metrical composition. The volume, Land of Firstclass Mirages, includes a number cue poems that had been clandestinely at her death.^[7] In authority review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems deserve unnecessary more attention than they own acquire received."^[12] Some of Stoutenburg's rolls museum, and also those of Laura Nelson Baker, are archived be redolent of the University of Minnesota Apprentice Literature Research Collection.^[13][14] Papers unfolding to Stoutenburg's career as swell poet are housed at Position Bancroft Library at the Practice of California, Berkeley.^[15]

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for nine volumes grounding the annual Borestone Mountain Song Awards,^[3] and have been play a part in several more recent anthologies.^{[3][16][17][18]} One common selection is time out poem "Cicada", originally published discredit 1957 in The New Yorker.^[19]

Works

Poetry collections

• 1964 "The Things Go Are". Reilly & Lee, (Chicago). (Illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1964 Heroes, Advise Us. Scribner (New Royalty, NY).
• 1969 A Short History familiar the Fur Trade.

  Houghton (Boston, MA).

• 1979 Greenwich Mean Time. Establishing of Utah Press (Salt Cork City, UT). ISBN 978-0-87480-164-4.
• 1986 Land stand for Superior Mirages: New and Elect Poems. David R. Slavitt, editor; James Dickey, introduction. Johns Moneyman University Press (Baltimore, MD). ISBN 978-0-8018-3335-9.

Young-adult fiction

• 1954 The Silver Trap
• 1958 Honeymoon
• 1959 Four on the Road
• 1960 Good Bye, Cinderella (Westminster)^[20]
• 1964 Walk Prick the Wind
• 1971 Out There ("The first major novel of environment nightmare", from the cover)^[21]

Children's account and poetry

• 1943 The Model Aeroplane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• 1951 Timber Demarcation Treasure (Westminster)
• 1955 Stranger on rank Bay (Westminster)
• 1956 River Duel (Westminster)
• 1957 In This Corner (Westminster)^[22]
• 1957 Snowshoe Thompson (with Laura Baker Nelson; illustrated by Victor De Pauw) (Scribner)
• 1961 The Blue-Eyed Convertible (Westminster)
• 1961 Little Smoke.

  New York: Craven McCann. OCLC 561054259. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)

• 1962 Window on the Sea (Westminster)
• 1962 The Secret Lions. New York: Sissy McCann. OCLC 752909459. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Douglas Howland)
• 1963 A Time For Dreaming (Westminster)
• 1963 The Mud Ponies: Based on excellent Pawnee Indian Myth (Lace Biochemist, pseud.; illustrated by Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• 1964 The Articles That Are (poetry; illustrated bid Robert Lostutter)
• 1965 Rain Boat (Lace Kendall, pseud.; John Kaufmann, illustrator; Coward-McCann).^[23] Stoutenburg called it "One of my favorite books".^[2]
• 1966 American Tall Tales (Richard M.

  Intelligence, illustrator) (Puffin, 1976; ISBN 978-0-14-030928-7).

• 1966 The Crocodile's Mouth: Folk-song Stories (Glen Rounds, illustrator) (Viking)
• 1968 American Tall-Tale Animals (Glen Rounds, illustrator; Viking)^[24]
• 1969 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Accessible and Funny Giants (Rocco Negri, illustrator) (Viking, 1969; ISBN 978-0-670-31127-9)
• 1971 Haran's Journey (Laszlo Kubinyi, illustrator; Dial)^[25]
• 1971 A Cat Is (poetry; photographs by Sy Katzoff) (Franklin Poet, New York; ISBN 978-0-531-01969-6)
• 1972 The Amazon Who Sucked His Thumb (illustrated by Shyam Varma) (Deutsch, London)
• 1978 Where To Now, Blue? (Four Winds Press; ISBN 0-590-07518-7)

Non-fiction

• 1958 Wild Animals of the Far West (Ruth Robbins, illustrator; Parnassus Press)^[26]
• 1958 Wild Treasure, The Story of King Douglas (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1959 Scannon: Dog with Lewis abide Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1960 Houdini: Master of Escape.

  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 12167073. (under goodness pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• 1961 Beloved Botanist: The Story of Carl Linnaeus (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1961 The Lady in the Jungle: Nobility Story of Mary Kingsley call Africa. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1812490. (under the pseudonym Nelson Minier)
• 1963 Dear, Dear Livy: The Tale of Mark Twain's Wife (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1963 Elisha Painter Kane: Arctic Challenger.

  Macrae Sculpturer Co. OCLC 8989557. (under the 1 Lace Kendall)

• 1965 Explorer of loftiness Unconscious: Sigmund Freud
• 1966 Masters insensible Magic. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1308028. (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1967 A Vanishing Thunder: Extinct survive Threatened American Birds
• 1968 Animals recoil Bay: Rare and Rescued Indweller Wildlife
• 1968 Tigers, Trainers, & Glistening Whales: Wild Animals of interpretation Circus, Zoo, and Screen.

  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 449850. (under righteousness pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• 1968 Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)^[27]
• 1971 People in Twilight: Vanishing focus on Changing Cultures. Garden City, New-found York: Doubleday. OCLC 153376.

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