Isabell also did volunteer work, and wrote short stories in her spare time. She is the first child of Isabell Berlin Yolen, a psychiatric social worker who became a full-time mother and homemaker upon Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time for New York newspapers, and whose family emigrated from the Ukraine to the United States. Jane Hyatt Yolen was born on February 11, 1939, at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. Yolen published her 400th book in early 2021, Bear Outside. This lecture series is held at the University of South Florida School of Information 'to honor the memory of its first director, Alice Gullen Smith, known for her work with youth and bibliotherapy.' In 2012 she became the first woman to give the Andrew Lang lecture. Smith Lecture, the inaugural year for the series. Yolen gave the lecture for the 1989 Alice G. Her other works include the Nebula Award−winning short story 'Sister Emily's Lightship', the novelette 'Lost Girls', Owl Moon, The Emperor and the Kite, the Commander Toad series and How Do Dinosaurs Say Good Night? She has collaborated on works with all three of her children, most extensively with Adam Stemple. She is the author or editor of more than 350 books, of which the best known is The Devil's Arithmetic, a Holocaust novella. Jane Hyatt Yolen (born February 11, 1939) is an American writer of fantasy, science fiction, and children's books. (Sept.Fantasy, science fiction, folklore, children's fiction She handles a difficult subject with finesse in a book that should be required reading for anyone who is tempted to dismiss fantasy as a frivolous genre. By interpolating Gemma's vivid and imaginative story into the larger narrative, Yolen has created an engrossing novel. To discover the facts behind Gemma's story, Rebecca travels to Poland, the setting for the book's most engrossing scenes and its most interesting, best-developed characters. Rebecca Berlin, a young woman who has grown up hearing her grandmother Gemma tell an unusual and frightening version of the Sleeping Beauty legend, realizes when Gemma dies that the fairy tale offers one of the very few clues she has to her grandmother's past. Yolen takes the story of Briar Rose (commonly known as Sleeping Beauty) and links it to the Holocaust-a far-from-obvious connection that she makes perfectly convincing. This is one of the series's most ambitious efforts, and only a writer as good as Yolen ( Sister Light, Sister Dark ) could bring it off. Windling's Fairy Tale series has produced several excellent fantasy novels inspired by classic fairy tales.

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