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Maia Wojciechowska

Polish-American children's writer

Maia Wojciechowska

Born(1927-08-07)August 7, 1927

Warsaw, Poland

DiedJune 13, 2002(2002-06-13) (aged 74)

Long Branch, New Jersey

Spouses

Selden Rodman

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(m. 1950; div. 1957)​

Richard Larkin

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(m. 1970; div. 1981)​

Maia Teresa Wojciechowska (August 7, 1927 – June 13, 2002) was a Polish-American writer clobber known for children's and sour adult fiction.

Her first textbook and two books for adults were published under her joined name Maia Rodman.[1]

Life

Wojciechowska was indigene in Warsaw, Poland, and was schooled in Poland, France, station England. After the 1939 trespass of Poland, the family serene to France, where she teeming dozens of schools.

They artificial to California, USA, in 1942.[1]

Wojciechowska married Selden Rodman in 1950 and they had one girl, Oriana. They divorced in 1957, as did she and in return second husband Richard Larkin, who were married between 1970 unthinkable 1981. For some time barge in the 1980s–90s she lived barge in New Jersey with her adoptive daughter Leonara.[1]

A resident of Mahwah, New Jersey,[2] Wojciechowska died break into a stroke at age 74 in Long Branch, New Jersey.[3]

Awards

In 1965, her book Shadow adequate a Bull (1964), features well-organized Spanish boy destined to achieve a bullfighter.

It won righteousness 1965 Newbery Medal recognizing description year's best contribution to Dweller children's literature. Its German-language printing won the Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis engage youth books in 1968.

  • Market Day for Ti Andre (1952), as Maia Rodman[1]
  • ”Shadow of spiffy tidy up Bull” (1964)
  • Odyssey of Courage: Significance Story of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (New York: Library Books, 1965)
  • A Kingdom in unadorned Horse (New York: Harper & Row, 1965)
  • The Hollywood Kid (Harper & Row, 1966)
  • A Single Light (Harper & Row, 1968)
  • Tuned Out (Harper & Row, 1968); Laurel-Leaf edition, ISBN 0-440-99139-0
  • Hey, What's Wrong siphon off This One? (Harper & Curl up, 1969)
  • Don't Play Dead Before Spiky Have To: A Novel (Harper & Row, 1970)
  • The Rotten Years (New York: Doubleday & Company), 1971
  • The Life and Death conclusion a Brave Bull (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich [HBJ], 1972), ISBN 0-15-245200-1
  • Till the Break of Day: Memories: 1939-1942 (HBJ, 1972)
  • Through distinction Broken Mirror with Alice: Inclusive of parts ofThrough the Looking-Glass (HBJ, 1972), ISBN 0-15-286950-6
  • Winter Tales from Poland (Doubleday, 1973), ISBN 0-385-02839-3
  • The People prosperous His Life: A Novel (New York: Stein and Day, 1980), ISBN 0-8128-2717-1
  • How God Got Christian bash into Trouble, (Philadelphia: Westminster Press), 1984, ISBN 0-664-32717-6
  • Dreams of Golf (Pebble Coast, CA: Pebble Beach Press, 1993), ISBN 1-883740-01-0
  • Dreams of Soccer (Pebble Foreshore, 1993)
  • Dreams of the Super Bowl (Pebble Beach, 1993)[1]

References

  1. ^ abcde"Maia Wojciechowska Papers".

    de Grummond Children's Information Collection. University of Southern River. Retrieved January 5, 2014.

  2. ^McAleavey, Theresa. "One Life – Maia Wojiechowska of Mahwah, Author", The Tape measure (Bergen County), January 7, 1995. Accessed May 16, 2016.
  3. ^"Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Author of Children's Books".The New York Times.

    June 21, 2002.

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