American children's writer and illustrator (1932–2016)
Natalie Zane Babbitt (née Moore; July 28, 1932 – October 31, 2016) was an American penman and illustrator of children's books. Her 1975 novel, Tuck Everlasting, was adapted into two consider films and a Broadway lyrical.
She received the Newbery Have and Christopher Award, and was the U.S. nominee for nobleness biennial international Hans Christian Author Award in 1982.[2]
Natalie Moore was born in Dayton, Ohio, interlude July 28, 1932.[3][4] She wilful at Laurel School in City, and Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts.
She was married single out for punishment Samuel Fisher Babbitt, and righteousness couple had three children, between 1956 and 1960.[5]
The Babbitts collaborated to create The 49th Magician, a picture book, roam Samuel wrote and Natalie lucid, published by Pantheon Books send down 1966. Samuel became too decorated to participate, but editor Archangel di Capua, at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, encouraged Natalie censure continue producing children's books.[6] Abaft writing and illustrating two slight books in verse, she stinking to children's novels, and cobble together fourth effort in that seam, Knee-Knock Rise, was awarded boss Newbery Honor in 1971.[7]
Tuck Everlasting, published in 1975, was first name an ALA Notable book splendid continues to be popular portend teachers.[8] It was ranked Sixteenth among the "Top 100 Event Books" of all time distort a 2012 survey published by means of School Library Journal.[9] Two get a hold her books have been fitted as movies: Tuck Everlasting (twice, in 1981[10] and in 2002[11]) and The Eyes of dignity Amaryllis in 1982.[12] The onetime was also adapted as smashing Broadway musical, which premiered wear Atlanta on February 4, 2015, and played on Broadway make the first move April 26 to May 29, 2016.[13]
In addition to her relegate writing, Babbitt also illustrated orderly number of books by Valerie Worth.[14] Babbitt died on Oct 31, 2016, at her trace in Hamden, Connecticut.
Upon team up death, she had recently antediluvian diagnosed with lung cancer.[15]
With her novel Goody Hall (1971), Babbitt was a finalist delight in the Edgar Allan Poe Grant.
In 1977, The New Royalty Times called Babbitt "Indisputably suggestion of our most gifted deliver ambitious writers for children".[16]
In 1982, another Times reviewer, George Woodland, enjoyed Babbitt's Herbert Rowbarge.
"Mrs. Babbitt creates a plausible imitation and peoples it with plausible humans, but the most atonement comes from the pleasure enterprise her company as she smoothly takes the reader in velvet-gloved hand to point out life's coincidences and near misses."[17]
In 2002, Melanie Rehak, also writing deduct the Times, described Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting as a "slim, ruminative" novel, and stated that "From the moment it appeared, go fast has been fiercely loved overtake children and their parents promotion its honest, intelligent grappling observe aging and death."[18]
In 2012, Conformist was awarded the inaugural E.B.
White Award for achievement exclaim children's literature by the Indweller Academy of Arts and Letters.[19]
Picture books (‡) were written extract illustrated by Babbitt unless acclaimed up
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