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Borrowed Finery

A Memoir

Borrowed Finery( )
Author: Fox, Paula
ISBN:978-0-8050-6815-3
Publication Date:Oct 2001
Publisher:Henry Holt & Company
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $23.00
Book Description:

An exotic, heartbreaking memoir that should finally earn Paula Fox, a distinguished novelist and children's book writer, the audience she has for decades deservedPaula Fox has long been acclaimed as one of America's most brilliant fiction writers. Borrowed Finery, her first book in nearly a decade, is an astonishing memoir of her highly unusual beginnings.Born in the twenties to nomadic, bohemian parents, Fox is left at birth in a Manhattan orphanage, then cared for by a poor...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors
Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures
Literary Criticism / American / General
Biography & Autobiography / Women
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.62 x 0.66 Inches
Book Weight:0.88 Pounds
Author Biography
Fox, Paula (Author)
Paula Fox was born in Manhattan, New York on April 22, 1923. She briefly studied piano at the Juilliard School and spent 3 years at Columbia University but didn't graduate. Before becoming a writer, she worked as a salesgirl, a model, a worker in a rivet-sorting shop, a lathe operator at Bethlehem Steel, and a teacher of troubled children.

She wrote books for children and adults. Her children's books included Maurice's Room, Traces, Blowfish Live in the Sea, One-Eyed Cat, and The Eagle Kite. She received the Newbery Medal for The Slave Dancer in 1974 and the Hans Christian Andersen Award for her body of children's work in 1978. Her books for adults include Poor George, The Widow's Children, A Servant's Tale, and The God of Nightmares. Desperate Characters was adapted into a film starring Shirley MacLaine and Kenneth Mars. She also wrote two memoirs entitled Borrowed Finery and The Coldest Winter: A Stringer in Liberated Europe. She died on March 1, 2017 at the age of 93.

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