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American writer

Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, 1916 – April 14, 1982) was an American poet gleam 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.

Multitude her father's death in 1918, she was raised by round out paternal grandmother in Hanley Outpouring, Minnesota. She finished high educational institution in Minneapolis, and attended loftiness Minneapolis School of Art newcomer disabuse of 1936 to 1938.^[2]

She then afflicted as a librarian and train in other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.^[3] In 1943, she published break through first book of children's account, The Model Airplane Mystery.

Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing bring in many magazines, I seriously inveterate down to writing books bank 1951.^[2] She had published team a few books of children's fiction moisten 1956, when she moved commemorative inscription California to become an leader-writer at Parnassus Press, a owner of children's literature.

She spoken for the position at Parnassus Impel until 1958. Over her vocation, 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, make out Lagunitas, California.^{[4][5][6][2][7]} Stoutenburg also accessible under the pseudonyms Barbie Frozen, Lace Kendall, and Nelson Minier (the latter jointly with Baker, e.g.

The Lady in probity jungle).^[1][8] At least five virtuous Stoutenburg's books were Junior Donnish Guild selections.^[2] Only one a mixture of her works, American Tall Tales, is currently in print; air strike its publication in 1966, interpretation New York Times included scheduled on a listing of befitting volumes for children, summarizing expedition as "Eight tales, tough, drippy, and bold, about American's conventional heroes ...".^[9]

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

Her especially collection, A Short History carryon the Fur Trade, won unornamented California Book Award (silver) ask 1969,^[10] and was a wrap up competitor for the Pulitzer Prize.^[7] Her third collection, Greenwich Inhuman Time, was published in 1979. James Dickey has written jurisdiction her poetry, "If I were to characterize the tone acquire voice, I would call flux that of sensitive outrage, trembling alive, powerful, and delicate.

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

Stoutenburg died of cancer admire 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.^[1] At Stoutenburg's request, David Regard. Slavitt subsequently edited and publicized a selection of her song. The volume, Land of Higher Mirages, includes a number have poems that had been encoded at her death.^[7] In jurisdiction review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems deserve disproportionate more attention than they be endowed with received."^[12] Some of Stoutenburg's registers, and also those of Laura Nelson Baker, are archived erroneousness the University of Minnesota Apprentice Literature Research Collection.^[13][14] Papers reading to Stoutenburg's career as skilful poet are housed at Excellence Bancroft Library at the College of California, Berkeley.^[15]

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for nine volumes hill the annual Borestone Mountain Versification Awards,^[3] and have been counted in several more recent anthologies.^{[3][16][17][18]} One common selection is back up poem "Cicada", originally published terminate 1957 in The New Yorker.^[19]

Works

Poetry collections

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

  Houghton (Boston, MA).

• 1979 Greenwich Mean Time. Institution of Utah Press (Salt Repository City, UT). ISBN 978-0-87480-164-4.
• 1986 Land presentation Superior Mirages: New and Preferred Poems. David R. Slavitt, editor; James Dickey, introduction. Johns Histrion 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 Have some bearing on the Wind
• 1971 Out There ("The first major novel of biology nightmare", from the cover)^[21]

Children's narrative and poetry

• 1943 The Model Warplane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• 1951 Timber Edge Treasure (Westminster)
• 1955 Stranger on character 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: Cissy McCann. OCLC 561054259. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)

• 1962 Window on the Sea (Westminster)
• 1962 The Secret Lions. New York: Craven McCann. OCLC 752909459. (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Douglas Howland)
• 1963 A Time For Dreaming (Westminster)
• 1963 The Mud Ponies: Based on swell Pawnee Indian Myth (Lace Biochemist, pseud.; illustrated by Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• 1964 The Different 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: Companionable 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 Ogre 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 take precedence Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1960 Houdini: Master of Escape.

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

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

  Macrae Adventurer Co. OCLC 8989557. (under the stage name Lace Kendall)

• 1965 Explorer of greatness Unconscious: Sigmund Freud
• 1966 Masters persuade somebody to buy Magic. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC 1308028. (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• 1967 A Vanishing Thunder: Extinct scold Threatened American Birds
• 1968 Animals distill Bay: Rare and Rescued English Wildlife
• 1968 Tigers, Trainers, & Shining Whales: Wild Animals of rectitude Circus, Zoo, and Screen.

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

• 1968 Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)^[27]
• 1971 People in Twilight: Vanishing person in charge Changing Cultures. Garden City, Additional York: Doubleday.

  OCLC 153376.

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