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Article: A Life in Books: Jane Yolen.(Periscope)(Brief article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- June 2, 2008
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The author of more than 280 books, Yolen, a writer of folklore fantasy and children's literature, is best known for her Holocaust novella "The Devil's Arithmetic." Her latest work, "Naming Liberty," tells the story of a Russian girl and the designer of the Statue of Liberty.
My Five Most Important Books
1. "Moby-Dick" by Herman Melville. It's a book I reread every 10 years, which is coming up again. I even love the whale parts.
2. "Winter's Tales" by Isak Dinesen. It has two of my favorite Dinesen stories, "Sorrow Acre" and "The Sailor-Boy's Tale."
3. "The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson." Her poems taught me to ...