Norma Fox Mazer (1931–2009)
Author of Ten Ways To Make My Sister Disappear
About the Author
Norma Fox Mazer was born in New York City on May 15, 1931. She studied at Antioch College and at Syracuse University. She contributed first-person articles to pulp magazines like True Confessions and True Story. Her first juvenile novel, I, Trissy, was published in 1971. She wrote more than 30 show more books during her lifetime including Dear Bill, Remember Me?, Summer Girls, Love Boys, and Other Short Stories, Silver, Out of Control, A Figure of Speech, and Good Night, Maman. She won numerous awards including a Newbery Honor in 1988 for After the Rain, an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in 1982 for Taking Terri Mueller, a Christopher Award, and an ALAN Award. From 1997 to 2006, she taught writing at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. She died of brain cancer on October 17, 2009 at the age of 78. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical name
- Mazer, Norma Fox
- Legal name
- Mazer, Norma Diane Fox
- Other names
- Fox, Norma Diane (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1931-05-15
- Date of death
- 2009-10-17
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- Montpelier, Vermont, USA
- Places of residence
- Glens Falls, New York, USA
Montpelier, Vermont, USA
Jamesville, New York, USA
New York, New York, USA - Education
- Antioch College
Syracuse University - Occupations
- pulp fiction writer
young adult writer
creative writing teacher - Relationships
- Mazer, Harry (husband)
Mazer, Anne (daughter) - Organizations
- Vermont College of Fine Arts
Author's Guild
PEN - Short biography
- Norma Fox grew up in Glens Falls, New York, surrounded by her mother’s extended family of Russian-Jewish immigrants. She decided to become a writer by age 12 or 13. She attended Antioch College briefly, but dropped out to get married in 1950 to Harry Mazer, with whom she had four children. Norma Fox Mazer began her literary career as a young mother. She and her husband wrote stories that were published in True Confessions, True Story, and other pulp fiction magazines. Within a few years, they started writing young adult novels, some of them together. Norma Fox Maser was one of the pioneering writers -- along with Judy Blume, Norma Klein, and a few others -- who defined the field of young adult literature in the 1970s. Her novels featured appealing young characters facing difficult situations, such as family separation and death. She wrote a total of 33 books and won many awards, among them a Newbery Medal, the Christopher Award, two Lewis Carroll Shelf Awards, an Edgar, and a National Book Award nomination. In 1997, Norma Fox Mazer joined the faculty of the Vermont College of Fine Arts, teaching writing for young adults and children in the MFA program. She also served as faculty chair. She also taught at the National Book Foundation summer writing camp. Norma and Harry lived for many years in upstate New York, commuting between Jamesville and New York City. She spent the final years of her life in Montpelier, Vermont.
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