Edward Irving Wortis

Edward Irving Wortis (born December 23, 1937 in New York , NY ) is an American author of books for children and young people. His pseudonym is Avi .

Life

Edward Irving Wortis was born in 1937 in New York City with his twin sister Emily Wortis Leider (also a writer). His father Joseph Wortis was a psychiatrist and his mother Helen Zunser Wortis was a social worker. He grew up in Brooklyn , where his family moved a year after he was born. As a child, his sister gave him the nickname Avi , which he later adopted as a pseudonym.

His grandfathers were both writers and his grandmother a playwright. In interviews, he recalled that his mother read to him and his sister every evening and that he always went to the city library on Fridays. His brother Henry was considered a genius; he went to university at the age of 15 and later became a scientist. Irving Wortis is the cousin of actor and Oscar winner Alan Arkin .

After Irving Wortis failed at Stuyvesant High School, his parents sent him to the small private Elisabeth Irwin High School. There he learned from his tutor Ella Ratner, to whom he, according to his own statements, owes his later literary success. It turned out that he had a symptom of agrafy such that he misspelled or twisted words.

He initially worked in various craft professions, but was also active as a writer. Initially only active as a playwright, he later also wrote for his own children. He published various children's and youth books for all age groups and is now one of the best-known authors of children's and youth literature .

After being in the 1980s and 1990s in Providence ( Rhode Iceland had lived), Avi now lives with his wife Linda Wright Cruise in Denver ( Colorado ).

Act

Avi is a very creative writer. He has authored over 60 books for all ages and in many different genres. Perhaps his best known books fall into the historical novel category . But he has also written books belonging to the fantasy genre and comedy , as well as ghost stories, adventure stories, everyday stories and picture books .

By the end of 2005, Avi had published 58 books, all of which were intended for children and young people. In 2006 he wrote a sequel to "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" under the title "Crispin: At the Edge of the World".

Awards

Avi has received several prestigious awards for his books, including

• three times the Newbery award for his books "The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle" (1991), "Nothing But the Truth" (1992) and for his 50th book "Crispin: The Cross of Lead" (2003).

Works

• 1970 - Things That Sometimes Happen
• 1972 - Snail Tail: The Adventures of a Rather Small Snail
• 1975 - No More Magic
• 1977 - Captain Gray
• 1978 - Emily Upham's Revenge or How Deadwood Dick Saved the Banker's Niece: A Massachusetts Adventure
• 1979 - Night Journeys
• 1979 - American Children's cokacola: A Bibliographic History
• 1980 - Encounter At Easton
• 1980 - History of Helpless Harry: to which is add a variety of amusing and entertaining adventures
• 1980 - Man From The Sky
• 1981 - Who Stole The Wizard Of Oz?
• 1981 - A Place Called Ugly
• 1982 - Sometimes I Think I Hear My Name
• 1983 - Shadrach's Crossing
• 1983 - Smuggler's Island
• 1984 - Devils Race
• 1984 - SOR Losers
• 1984 - The Fighting Ground
• 1985 - Bright Shadow
• 1986 - Wolf Rider
• 1987 - Romeo & Juliet, Together and Alive at Last
• 1988 - Something Upstairs | Something Upstairs: A Tale of Ghosts
• 1989 - The Man Who Was Poe
• 1990 - The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle ; German: salt in the hair . 1995, dtv , ISBN 978-3-423-70356-7
• 1991 - Nothing But the Truth
• 1991 - Windcatcher
• 1992 - Blue Heron
• 1992 - Who Was that Masked Man Anyway?
• 1993 - City of Light, City of Dark
• 1993 - Punch With Judy
• 1994 - The Barn
• 1994 - The Bird the Frog and the Light: A Fable
• 1995 - Tales From Dimwood Forest: Poppy ; German: In the gloomy forest: The adventures of a courageous mouse . Translator: Ulli and Herbert Günther . ISBN 978-3-473-34499-4 , Ravensburger Buchverl., 2007
• 1995 - Tom, Babbette & Simon
• 1996 - Beyond the Western Sea: The Escape from Home (Book I) ; German: Beyond the great sea: The escape . Translator: Ulli and Herbert Günther. ISBN 3-473-35191-1 , Ravensburger Buchverl., 1999
• 1996 - Beyond the Western Sea: Lord Kirkle's Money (Book II) ; German: Beyond the great sea: The stowaway . Translator: Ulli and Herbert Günther. ISBN 3-473-35192-X , Ravensburger Buchverl., 1999.
• 1997 - Finding Providence: The Story of Roger Williams
• 1997 - Keep Your Eyes on Amanda
• 1997 - What Do Fish Have To Do With Anything? and other stories
• 1997 - Talk to Me
• 1998 - Perloo the Bold
• 1998 - Tales From Dimwood Forest: Poppy & Rye
• 1999 - Abigail Takes the Wheel
• 1999 - Midnight Magic
• 1999 - Tales From Dimwood Forest: Ragweed
• 1999 - Amanda Joins the Circus
• 1999 - Second Sight: Stories for a New Millennium
• 2000 - Tales From Dimwood Forest: Ereth's Birthday : German: Im Bau der Füchse . Translator: Ulli and Herbert Günther. ISBN 978-3-473-52244-6 , Ravensburger Buchverlag, 2004, 2008
• 2000 - The Christmas Rat
• 2001 - Don't You Know There's a War On?
• 2001 - Prairie School
• 2001 - The Good Dog ; German: Free as a wolf . ISBN 978-3-551-35461-7 , Carlsen, 2005
• 2001 - The Secret School
• 2002 - Crispin: The Cross of Lead
• 2003 - Silent Movie
• 2003 - The Mayor of Central Park
• 2004 - Never Mind ; German: Kiss me, twin! . ISBN 978-3-401-05809-2 , Arena, 2005
• 2004 - The End of the Beginning: Being the Adventures of a Small Snail (and an Even Smaller Ant)
• 2005 - Tales from Dimwood Forest: Poppy's Return
• 2005 - The Book Without Words: A Fable of Medieval Magic : German: Das Gold des Alchemisten . ISBN 978-3-407-80968-1 , Beltz & Gelberg, 2006, 2007
• 2006 - Strange Happenings: Five Tales of Transformation
• 2006 - Crispin: At the Edge of the World
• 2007 - The Traitors' Gate
• 2007 - Iron Thunder
• 2008 - The Seer of Shadows
• 2008 - A Beginning, a Muddle and an End
• 2009 - Poppy and Ereth
• 2009 - Murder at Midnight
• 2009 - Hard Gold
• 2010 - Crispin: The End of Time
• 2011 - City of Orphans
• 2012 - Sophia's War: A Tale of the Revolution

Remarks

1. ↑ Brief introduction to Perlentaucher.de

Web links

• Literature by and about Edward Irving Wortis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Avi at perlentaucher.de
• Avi in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Avi Official Homepage