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 its annual award Norma Farber First Book Award for U.S. writers who publish their first band with its own poetry.

Life

The daughter of wealthy Jewish family in Boston citizens Holzman attended the local grammar school for girls (Girls ' Latin School) and Wellesley College. Even in school she was active literary. In 1931 she completed her bachelor's degree and completed a master's graduation in comparative literature at Radcliffe College, which she completed in 1932. She also studied Creative Writing at Robert Hillyer at Harvard University.

As a 18 -year-old in 1928 she married Sidney Farber, the later founder of the "Children's Cancer Research Foundation " ( renowned as the Dana -Farber Cancer Institute today ) in Boston. The marriage sprang four children.

Also, as a classically trained singer, she made ​​at home and abroad with appearances in public. In Belgium, they won as a soprano in 1936 the " first price" ( premier prix ) for singing the jury Central des Etudes Musicales.

Farber has published six books of poetry and 18 children's books. Her poems were first published in the 1940s. She was until the end of her literary active. You got a 1984 obituary in the New York Times. In the German -speaking region, it is almost unknown. An entry at the German National Library does not exist as has never been a translation of her books. In the U.S. it is present through the lyric young literary prize named after her.

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
  • 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 Adult Literature (selection)

  • Mercy Short: A Winter Journal, North Boston, 1692-93 Dutton, 1982 ISBN 978-0-525-44014-7 Original Issue 1973
  • The Boy who Longed for a Lift HarperCollins, 1997 ISBN 978-0-06-027108-4

Anthologies

Awards

  • Golden Rose Award
  • As I Was Crossing Boston Common was nominated for a National Book Award 1975
Cambridge (Massachusetts) Dana–Farber Cancer Institute
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