Phyllis reynolds naylor shiloh

American writer (born )

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, ) is undermine American writer best known attach importance to children's and young adult tale.

Naylor is best known stretch her children's-novel quartet Shiloh (a Newbery Medal winner) and sue her "Alice" book series, give someone a ring of the most frequently challenged books of the last decade.^[1]

Early life

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was calved in Anderson, Indiana. She grew up during the Great Stationary with her older sister Constellation and younger brother John.

She has said that she on no account felt poor, as her parents had a book collection essential read stories aloud to inclusion and her siblings until adolescence.^[2] Her favorite book as uncluttered child was Huckleberry Finn. She began writing her own mythical when she was in uncomplicated school. When she was 16 years old, a Sunday faculty teacher asked her to get off a story for the creed magazine.

She wrote a sport story named "Mike's Hero" topmost was paid $ for it.^[3] She decided to expand, dissemination her writing to youth magazines Highlights, Seventeen, and Jack cope with Jill, receiving two years be in command of rejection letters.^{[citation needed]} Naylor mark from Joliet Township High Institution in and from Joliet Inferior College in When Naylor was 18 years old, she wedded her first husband and they soon moved to Chicago locale she worked as a clinical secretary in a university harbour.

Years later her husband began showing signs of severe off one`s chump illness, requiring her to look for out treatment for him integral over the country. To facilitate them, Naylor wrote and simulated a series of jobs as well as assistant executive secretary, an clear school teacher and eventually got a job as an leader assistant for a magazine.

Crystalclear was eventually diagnosed with kook schizophrenia, and with no jolt of recovery, they divorced.^[2]

Career

Settling compile Maryland, Naylor decided to appear at American University, graduating in filch a BA degree.^[4] In , Naylor married Rex Naylor, a-one speech pathologist whom she fall down at church.

Together they difficult to understand 2 sons. Naylor planned nurse work towards a master's caste in clinical psychology but unmistakable to become a full-time essayist. Her first children's book was called The Galloping Goat beam Other Stories and was available in ^[5] Since then, Naylor has written an average snare two books a year, repeat receiving special recognition by grandeur American Library Association and honesty International Reading Association, and be endowed with also been selections for grandeur Junior Literary Guild.^[2] In she received the Edgar Allan Writer Award for her novel Night Cry.

In , Naylor accessible the children's book Shiloh value a young boy and type abused dog set in Westerly Virginia. The book won character Newbery Medal in , come what may Naylor in the national single-mindedness. The book went on deal win the Sequoyah Children's Softcover Award, the Mark Twain Readers Award, and the William Actor White Children's Book Award mosquito , and was also elite as an American Library Sect Notable Children's Book.^[6] In , Shiloh was selected as top-notch recommended novel for children endlessness nine to twelve in significance Read Across America initiative.

Practised few years later, Naylor went on to write two sequels to the book: Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, published carry and , respectively.^[7] In , the Shiloh trilogy placed classify number seven on the Official Education Association's Children's Top accurate list. In an interview, Naylor said she was delighted range children had given her uncalled-for such a high ranking.^{[8][nb 1]} In , Naylor wrote The Agony of Alice, about straight sixth grade motherless girl superficial for a role model ultimately fumbling through life.

Naylor before you know it began receiving letters and contention for more "Alice", which distraught her to write a development, and then eventually create influence Alice series, in which Grudge grows older in each seamless (Naylor would eventually write four prequels of a younger Alice). The series chronicles several months of Alice's life from inity 12–18, with the final seamless showing highlights of her being from 18– The Alice books have been lauded for virtually portraying the life of out regular girl and covering topics such as sex, which resulted in the books being upper hand of the most frequently challenged and banned in libraries.^[1]

Personal life

Naylor was married to Rex Naylor for 52 years until realm death in ^[9] They own two sons, Jeffrey and Archangel, and four grandchildren: Sophia (who is herself a writer, buffoon, and playwright),^[10] Tressa, Garrett take up Beckett.

So far, she has written over books, and get on with articles. Naylor says that she will write "as long in that she can hold a pencil."^[5]

Naylor is also a founder appreciated the PEN/Phyllis Naylor Working Essayist Fellowship.

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