Sydney Taylor

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Sydney Taylor (born 30th October 1904 in New York City as Sarah Brenner ; died 12. February 1978 ibid) was an American children's author.

Life

Sarah Brenner was the middle of five daughters in a middle-class family of Jewish German immigrants in the Lower East Side of Manhattan . The siblings grew up speaking English in a neighborhood dominated by immigrant Yiddish, and Sarah Anglicized her first name in Sydney. She studied literature and acting at New York University .

In 1925 she married the manager Ralph Taylor, who took over the Caswell-Massey company with his brother Milton in 1936. From 1925 to 1929 she worked as an actress for the "Lenox Hill Players" and from 1930 to 1935 she was a dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Studio . She stopped working when her daughter Joanne was born in 1935. From 1942 she was a carer for big city children in Cejwin summer camps during the holidays.

To give her daughter an impression of the world of her own childhood in an Orthodox family, she wrote down stories from her childhood. The manuscript was submitted by her husband in the competition for the "Charles W. Follett Award" and was printed as the winner in 1951 by Follett. In 1952 it also won the Jewish Book Council Award. Success led to a series of five books by the All-of-a-Kind Family , the last volume being published posthumously . Taylor published five other books for children and young people.

Since 1968, the Association of Jewish Libraries has been awarding a book prize in three categories based on age. After Taylor's death in 1978, the prize was renamed the Sydney Taylor Book Award , and the first main prize winner in the following year was the German émigré Doris Orgel .

Works (selection)

  • All-of-a-kind family . Illustrations by Helen John. Chicago: Wilcox and Follett 1951
    • The girl family . From d. American. transfer by Friedl Hofbauer . Ill. By Michael Olschowy. Recklinghausen: Bitter 1980
  • More All-Of-A-Kind Family . Illustrations by Mary Stevens. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co 1954
    • News from the girls' family . From d. American. transfer by Friedl Hofbauer. Recklinghausen: Bitter 1982
  • All-of-a-kind Family Uptown . Illustrations by Mary Stevens. Chicago: Follett Publishing Company 1958
  • Mr. Barney's Beard . Illustrations by Charles Geer. Chicago: Follett, 1961
  • Now That You Are 8 . Illustrations by Ingrid Fetz. New York: Association Press, 1963
  • The Dog Who Came to Dinner . Illustrations by John E. Johnson. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co, 1966
  • A Papa Like Everyone Else . Illustrations George Porter. Chicago, Follett Pub. Co, 1966
  • All-of-a-kind Family Downtown . Illustrations by Beth and Joe Krush. 1972
  • Ella of the All-of-a-Kind Family . Illustrations by Gail Owens. New York: EP Dutton 1978
  • Danny Loves a Holiday . Illustrations by Gail Owens. New York: Dutton 1980

literature

  • Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005
  • Frances Carol Locher (Ed.): Contemporary Authors . Volume 77-80. 1979 [Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2003.]

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Susan P. Bloom: Sydney Taylor , at Jewish Women's Archive (JWA)
  2. ^ A b Hadassah Stichnothe: Sydney Taylor , in: Bettina Kümmerling-Meibauer (ed.): Jewish children's literature: history, traditions, perspectives. Exhibition catalog . Wiesbaden 2005, p. 130 f.
  3. ↑ Glenn Collins: Milton Taylor, 86, a Co-Owner Of Caswell-Massey Pharmacies , New York Times obituary , Nov. 8, 1994
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Sydney
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American children's author
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1978
Place of death New York City