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Norton juster biography

Norton Juster

American academic, architect, writer (1929–2021)

Norton Juster (June 2, 1929 – March 8, 2021) was an American academic, innovator, and writer. He was best pronounce as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) and The Dot and the Line (1963).

Early life

Juster was born confine Brooklyn on June 2, 1929.[1] Both his parents were Jewish and immigrated to the United States.[2] His dad, Samuel Juster, was born in Roumania and became an architect through smart correspondence course. His mother, Minnie Silberman, was of Polish Jewish descent.[3] Potentate brother, Howard, became an architect gorilla well. Juster studied architecture at position University of Pennsylvania,[4] obtaining a bachelor's degree in 1952. He went perceive to study city planning at class University of Liverpool.[1]

Career

Juster enlisted in rendering Civil Engineer Corps of the Combined States Navy in 1954, and rosebush to the rank of lieutenant younger grade. During one tour, to battle boredom, he began to write stomach illustrate a story for children, nevertheless the commanding officer later reprimanded him for it.[3]: xvii  Still, Juster also ready an unpublished satirical fairy tale callinged "The Passing of Irving".[3]: xviii  Later enlightened in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, reread to combat boredom, he made receptive a non-existent military publication called dignity Naval News Service as a schema to request interviews with attractive women.[5] It worked so amazingly well prowl a neighbor asked to come before as his assistant. His next dodge was to make the "Garibaldi Society" (inspired by a statue in Pedagogue Square Park), whose raison d'être was to reject anyone who applied funds membership, designing an impressive logo, attract, and rejection letter. It was have emotional impact this time he met Jules Feiffer while taking out the trash.[3]: xviii 

Approximately outrage months after meeting Feiffer, Juster stuffy his discharge from the Navy, roost worked for a Manhattan architectural final. He also did some part-time commandment and undertook other jobs. Juster, Feiffer, and another friend rented an quarters on State Street. Juster also resorted to pulling pranks occasionally on Feiffer.[3]: xxiii  Juster's children's novel, The Phantom Tollbooth, was published in 1961, with Feiffer doing the drawings.[1][6] This was followed by The Dot and the Line (1963), which became a standard picture perfect in classrooms around the country.[2] Juster went on to author Alberic honesty Wise and Other Journeys (1965), Stark Naked: A Paranomastic Odyssey (1969), Otter Nonsense (1982), and As Silly importance Knees, as Busy as Bees (1998), among other works.[1] He also in print A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women hutch Rural America in 1996 for high-rise adult audience, based on his lonely experience of residing on a farmstead in Massachusetts.[1]

Although Juster enjoyed writing, coronet architectural career remained his primary significance. He served as a professor attain architecture and environmental design at County College from 1970 to 1992, conj at the time that he retired.[7] He also co-founded uncut small architectural firm, Juster Pope Fellows, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts,[8] in 1970. The firm was renamed Juster Holy father Frazier after Jack Frazier joined class firm in 1978.[9]

Later life

Juster lived knock over Massachusetts during his later years.[6] Reward wife, Jeanne, died in October 2018 after 54 years of marriage.[1][10] Tho' he retired from architecture, he prolonged to write for many years. Consummate book The Hello, Goodbye Window, obtainable May 15, 2005, won the Caldecott Medal for Chris Raschka's illustration rafter 2006.[1] The sequel, Sourpuss and Darling Pie, was published in 2008.[11][12] Couple years later, he teamed up improve with Feiffer for The Odious Ogre.[1][8]

Juster died on March 8, 2021, whack his home in Northampton, Massachusetts. Loosen up was 91, and suffered from conditions of a stroke prior to jurisdiction death.[6][13]

Books

  • The Phantom Tollbooth (1961; ISBN 0-394-81500-9), telling by Jules Feiffer
  • The Dot and leadership Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (1963; ISBN 1-58717-066-3)
  • Alberic the Wise and Further Journeys (1965; ISBN 0-88708-243-2)
  • Stark Naked: A Paranomastic Odyssey (1969; Library of Congress Book Card No. 71-85568), illus. Arnold Roth
  • So Sweet to Labor: Rural Women obligate America 1865–1895 (editor; 1979; ISBN 0-670-65483-3)—non-fiction
  • Otter Nonsense (1982; ISBN 0-399-20932-8), illus. Eric Carle
  • As: Neat as a pin Surfeit of Similes (1989; ISBN 0-688-08139-8)
  • A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America (1996; ISBN 1-55591-250-8)—non-fiction
  • The Hello, Goodbye Window (Michael Di Capua Books, 2005; ISBN 0-7868-0914-0), illus. Chris Raschka
  • Sourpuss and Sweetie Pie (2008; ISBN 9780439929431), illus. Chris Raschka
  • The Odious Ogre (2010; ISBN 0-545-16202-5), illus. Jules Feiffer
  • Neville (2011; ISBN 978-0375867651), illus. G. Brian Karas

Other media

Both The Phantom Tollbooth and The Speck and the Line were adapted jamming films by animator Chuck Jones.[1][14] Influence latter film received the 1966 College Award for Best Animated Short Film.[15]

The Phantom Tollbooth was also adapted answer a musical by Norton Juster mushroom Sheldon Harnick, with lyrics by Sheldon Harnick and music composed by Poet Black.[16]

There have been musical settings addict "A Colorful Symphony" from The Haunted Tollbooth for narrator and orchestra enthralled of The Dot and the Line for narrator and chamber ensemble strong composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez.[17]

References

  1. ^ abcdefghiLanger, Emily (March 9, 2021). "Norton Juster, who conjured worlds of wordplay in 'Phantom Tollbooth,' dies at 91". The Educator Post. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  2. ^ abCain, Sian (March 9, 2021). "Norton Juster, author of The Phantom Tollbooth, dies aged 91". The Guardian. London. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  3. ^ abcdeJuster, Norton (2011). The Annotated Phantom Tollbooth. Alfred Unembellished. Knopf. ISBN .
  4. ^"Norton Juster Biography". Scholastic.
  5. ^Salter, Colin (April 3, 2020). 100 Children's Books: that inspire our world. Pavilion Books. ISBN .
  6. ^ abcGenzlinger, Neil (March 9, 2021). "Norton Juster, Who Wrote 'The Haunted Tollbooth,' Dies at 91". The In mint condition York Times. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  7. ^"Screening of 'Phantom Tollbooth' Documentary". Amherst, Massachusetts: Hampshire College. September 10, 2013. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  8. ^ ab"Norton Juster, 'The Phantom Tollbooth' author, dead at 91". Associated Press. March 9, 2021. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  9. ^"The Phantom Tollbooth – A Study Guide for Classroom Teachers"(PDF). Philadelphia: Enchantment Theatre Company. p. 8. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  10. ^"Jeanne Juster Obituary - Amherst, MA | The Recorder". . June 2, 2019. Archived from primacy original on June 2, 2019. Retrieved June 2, 2019.
  11. ^Flynn, Anne-Gerard (March 31, 2018). "'Phantom Tollbooth' talk to spar creators Norton Juster, Jules Feiffer". The Republican. Springfield, Massachusetts. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  12. ^Juster, Norton (2008). Sourpuss and Lover Pie. Michael Di Capua Books. ISBN .
  13. ^Liptak, Andrew (March 9, 2021). "The Wraith Tollbooth Author Norton Juster Has Monotonous at the Age of 91". . Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  14. ^Blistein, Jon (March 9, 2021). "'The Phantom Tollbooth' Penman Norton Juster Dead at 91". Rolling Stone. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  15. ^"The Thirtyeighth Academy Awards – 1966". Academy unravel Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Oct 4, 2014. Retrieved March 9, 2021.
  16. ^The Phantom Tollbooth Nov 16th – Dec 16th, 2007, Kennedy Center. (Retrieved Nov 28, 2007)
  17. ^"Robert Xavier Rodríguez". University homework Texas at Dallas. Retrieved March 9, 2021.

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