Jane Yolen





Jane Yolen

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in New York, New York, The United States
February 11, 1939

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Yolen was born at Beth Israel Hospital, the first child of Isabel Berlin and Will Hyatt Yolen. She and her family moved to California when she was young but returned to New York a few years later. After her younger brother was born, her father joined the army and served on the European front during WWII. Yolen spent her childhood taking piano lessons, ballet dancing and writing a neighborhood newspaper with her brother. Yolen spent her teen years in Westport, Connecticut, and became involved in choir, basketball, debate, language clubs and the school paper. She graduated from Smith College with several publications in literary magazines already to her name.

In 1962, Yolen married David Stemple. They had three children together and six grandc...more


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Another Spring: A Pantoume



If I never see another spring–


the green thrusts of daffodils,


the violin curl of ferns–


I will still remember them.



The green thrusts of daffodils,


the scatter of crocuses.


I will still remember them


when I am under earth.



The scatter of crocuses,


like children in a playground,


when I am under earth


will still look the same:



like children in a playground.


The violin curl of ferns


w...

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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

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