Norma Farber
Norma Holzman Farber (born August 6, 1909 in Boston , † March 21, 1984 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American children's book author and poet. The Poetry Society of America named after her the annual Norma Farber First Book Award for US writers who publish their first volume with their own poetry.
Life
The daughter of the wealthy Jewish bourgeois family Holzman from Boston attended the Girls' Latin School and Wellesley College. Already in school she was active in literature. In 1931 she completed her bachelor's degree and completed a master's degree in comparative literature at Radcliffe College, which she took in 1932. She also studied creative writing with Robert Hillyer at Harvard University .
At the age of 18, she married Sidney Farber in 1928 , later founder of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation (now known as the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute ) in Boston. The marriage had four children.
As a classically trained singer, she also made a name for herself with performances at home and abroad. As a soprano in Belgium, she won the “1. Prize “(premier prix) for singing by the Central Jury of the Etudes Musicales.
Farber published six volumes of poetry and 18 children's books. Her poems were first published in the 1940s. She was literary active until the end of her life. The New York Times dedicated an obituary to her in 1984. She is almost unknown in the German-speaking area because her books have not yet been translated.
Works
Poetry
- Look to the Rose: Poems 1958
- A Desperate Thing: Marriage is a Desperate Thing. Poems Plowshare Press, 1973 ISBN 978-0-87368-202-2
- Something Further: Poems Kylix Press, 1979 ISBN 978-0-914408-10-9
- Shekhina: Forty Poems Capstone Editions, 1984 ISBN 978-0-9610662-2-2
- A Birth in the Family: Nativity Poems El León Literary Arts, 2003 ISBN 978-0-88739-538-3
Children's and young people's books (selection)
- Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93 Dutton, 1982 ISBN 978-0-525-44014-7 Original 1973 edition
- The Boy who Longed for a Lift HarperCollins, 1997 ISBN 978-0-06-027108-4
Anthologies
- Poets of Today, Norma Farber. "The Hatch, Poems". Scribner, 1955
Awards
- Golden Rose Award
- As I Was Crossing Boston Common was nominated for a National Book Award in 1975
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Dictionary of Literary Biography on Norma Farber
- ^ "Norma Farber, 74, Is Dead; Author of Books for Children " , New York Times , March 23, 1984th
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Farber, Norma |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Farber, Norma Holzman (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American children's book author and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 6, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boston |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 21, 1984 |
| Place of death | Cambridge, Massachusetts |