Marilyn Waniek

Marilyn Waniek (2019)

Marilyn Nelson Waniek (born April 26, 1946 in Cleveland , Ohio ) is an American poet , children's book author , translator, and literary scholar .

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As a child, she grew up on a military base and began her first literary attempts in elementary school. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California at Davis, her master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1970, and her PhD in philosophy from the University of Minnesota in 1979 . From 2001 to 2006 she was a Poeta Laureate of the State of Connecticut .

Sweethearts of Rhythm: The Story of the Greatest All-Girl Swing Band in the World , Dial Books, 2009, Illustrator Jerry Pinkney, ISBN 9780803731875
The Freedom Business: Including A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa . Front Street, 2008, ISBN 978-1-932425-57-4 .
A Wreath for Emmett Till , Illustrator Philippe Lardy, Houghton Mifflin, 2005, ISBN 978-0-618-39752-5 .
The Cachoeira Tales, and Other Poems . Louisiana State University Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8071-3064-3 .
Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem (Front Street, 2004, notes and annotations by Pamela Espeland)
Carver, a Life in Poems , Front Street, 2001, ISBN 978-1-886910-53-9
The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems . Louisiana State University Press, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8071-2175-7 .
Magnificat . Louisiana State University Press, 1994, ISBN 978-0-8071-1921-1 .
The homeplace . Louisiana State University Press, 1990, ISBN 978-0-8071-1641-8 .
Mama's Promises . Louisiana State University Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-8071-1250-2 .
For the Body , Louisiana State University Press, 1978, ISBN 978-0-8071-0464-4
She-Devil Circus (Aralia Press, 2001)
Triolets for Triolet (Curbstone Press, 2001)
Partial Truth (The Kutenai Press, 1992)

The Freedom Business: Connecticut Landscapes Through the Eyes of Venture Smith (Lyme Historical Society, Florence Griswold Museum, 2006, illustrated by American paintings from the Florence Griswold Museum)
Miss Crandall's School for Young Ladies and Little Misses of Color , with Elizabeth Alexander, illustrated by Floyd Cooper, Wordsong, 2007, ISBN 978-1-59078-456-3 .
Pemba's Song: A Ghost Story (Scholastic Press, 2008, with Tonya Hegamin)
The Cat Walked Through the Casserole (Carolrhoda Books, 1984, with Pamela Espeland, various illustrators)

The Ladder by Halfdan Rasmussen (translated from Danish, Candlewick, 2006, illustrated by Pierre Pratt)
The Thirteenth Month by Inge Pedersen (translated from Danish, Oberlin College Press, 2005)
Hecuba by Euripedes, in Euripedes I, Penn Greek Drama Series (translated from earlier English translations, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998)
Hundreds of Hens and other poems for children by Halfdan Rasmussen (translated from Danish, Black Willow Press, 1982, with Pamela Espeland, illustrations by DM Robinson)

Snook Alone , Candlewick Press, 2010, illustrator Timothy B. Ering | Timothy Basil Ering, ISBN 978-0-7636-2667-9
Beautiful Ballerina (Scholastic Press, 2009, photographs by Susan Kuklin), ISBN 978-0-545-08920-3
The Ladder by Halfdan Rasmussen (Candlewick, 2006)
The Cat Walked Through the Casserole (Carolrhoda Books, 1984)
Hundreds of Hens and other poems for children by Halfdan Rasmussen (Black Willow Press, 1982, with Pamela Espeland, illustrations by DM Robinson)

↑ From 1978 to 1994 she wrote her books under the name Marilyn Nelson . [1] , accessed July 30, 2018.
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SURNAME	Waniek, Marilyn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Waniek, Marilyn Nelson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American poet, children's author, translator and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH	April 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Cleveland , Ohio