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From: Jason Wells <jwells_at_abramsbooks.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:36:40 +0000
August 3, 2011-William Sleator, the author of more than thirty books for yo ung adults and children, died on August 2, 2011, in Thailand. He was sixty- six years old. Born William Warner Sleator III on February 13, 1945, in Hav re de Grace, Maryland, and raised just outside St. Louis, Missouri, he earn ed wide acclaim for intelligent, thought-provoking, and often disturbing sc ience fiction novels in which young characters are pitted against the diabo lical, baffling, or grotesque. His first book, The Angry Moon, a picture book retelling of a Tlingit India n legend, was illustrated by his friend Blair Lent. It won a 1971 Caldecott Honor, but Sleator would find even greater acclaim with the publication of his novel House of Stairs (1974), edited by Ann Durrell, who would become his longtime editor. House of Stairs is widely considered a masterpiece of science fiction and was named one of the 100 Best Books for Teens by the Am erican Library Association. He went on to publish many acclaimed novels, in cluding Interstellar Pig (1984) and Singularity (1985), his own favorite of his books. In 1993, in a departure from his science fiction writing, he pu blished a popular and hilarious collection of autobiographical stories, Odd balls, in which he detailed life growing up outside St. Louis in a family o f brilliant eccentrics who shunned conventionality and encouraged curiosity and wild experiments and pranks. The only nonscientist in his family, Slea tor turned to the arts, playing the piano and writing from a young age. Ear ly efforts such as "Guillotines in the Springtime" and "The Haunted Easter Egg" delighted his family. After graduating from Harvard University, he wor ked as an accompanist, eventually for the Boston Ballet. But the success of his books allowed him to quit and write full time. Sleator died in his beloved Thailand. He explored his fascination with Thai culture, and its embrace of the beautiful and the grotesque, in The Spirit House and other novels published by Dutton Children's Books. He followed
e ditor Susan Van Metre to Abrams in 2002, and published The Boy Who Couldn't Die as the lead title on the Amulet Books launch list in 2004. His final b ook, The Phantom Limb, will be published by Amulet Books in October. He is survived by his father and two brothers.
Praise for the work of William Sleator:
"Sleator is the master of the creepy-crawly." -The Horn Book
"This is an author who knows exactly what adolescents care about. . . . His genius is in taking vague science-fiction whimsy and using imagery to word -paint it into a stunning virtual reality. Nobody does it better!" -School Library Journal
"One of my favorite young adult writers." -R. L. Stine
JASON M. WELLS Executive Director, Publicity and Marketing Abrams Books for Young Readers | Amulet Books | Abrams Appleseed
ABRAMS | The Art of Books Since 1949 115 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 T 212.229.8826 | F 212.366.0809 | M: 646.456.5446 jwells_at_abramsbooks.com www.abramsbooks.com
Visit blog.abramsbooks.com Like ABRAMS Books on Facebook Follow us _at_ABRAMSBooks on Twitter
HAVE YOU READ THE DRAGON OF CRIPPLE CREEK by Troy Howell? This delightful debut novel by the illustrator of the REDWALL series covers is a heart-warming adventure about all that glitters versus all that matte rs. Never before have the American West and ancient dragons been rolled tog ether into one wild, tumbleweed tale.
From: Jason Wells
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:53 PM To: 'Lbhcove_at_aol.com'; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: RE:
SAD NEWS
Bill's last book, The Phantom Limb, will be published this October by Amule t Books.
We will share an obituary shortly. We are all very sad.
JASON M. WELLS Executive Director, Publicity and Marketing Abrams Books for Young Readers | Amulet Books | Abrams Appleseed
ABRAMS | The Art of Books Since 1949 115 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 T 212.229.8826 | F 212.366.0809 | M: 646.456.5446 jwells_at_abramsbooks.com www.abramsbooks.com
Visit blog.abramsbooks.com Like ABRAMS Books on Facebook Follow us _at_ABRAMSBooks on Twitter
HAVE YOU READ THE DRAGON OF CRIPPLE CREEK by Troy Howell? This delightful debut novel by the illustrator of the REDWALL series covers is a heart-warming adventure about all that glitters versus all that matte rs. Never before have the American West and ancient dragons been rolled tog ether into one wild, tumbleweed tale.
From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:50 PM To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Subject:
SAD NEWS
William Sleator, author of many popular YA books, died yesterday at the age of 65.
Bill was a multi-talented man. It is so sad to lose someone so young.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Visit my site at: www.leebennetthopkins.com
Date: Wed, 03 Aug 2011 21:36:40 +0000
August 3, 2011-William Sleator, the author of more than thirty books for yo ung adults and children, died on August 2, 2011, in Thailand. He was sixty- six years old. Born William Warner Sleator III on February 13, 1945, in Hav re de Grace, Maryland, and raised just outside St. Louis, Missouri, he earn ed wide acclaim for intelligent, thought-provoking, and often disturbing sc ience fiction novels in which young characters are pitted against the diabo lical, baffling, or grotesque. His first book, The Angry Moon, a picture book retelling of a Tlingit India n legend, was illustrated by his friend Blair Lent. It won a 1971 Caldecott Honor, but Sleator would find even greater acclaim with the publication of his novel House of Stairs (1974), edited by Ann Durrell, who would become his longtime editor. House of Stairs is widely considered a masterpiece of science fiction and was named one of the 100 Best Books for Teens by the Am erican Library Association. He went on to publish many acclaimed novels, in cluding Interstellar Pig (1984) and Singularity (1985), his own favorite of his books. In 1993, in a departure from his science fiction writing, he pu blished a popular and hilarious collection of autobiographical stories, Odd balls, in which he detailed life growing up outside St. Louis in a family o f brilliant eccentrics who shunned conventionality and encouraged curiosity and wild experiments and pranks. The only nonscientist in his family, Slea tor turned to the arts, playing the piano and writing from a young age. Ear ly efforts such as "Guillotines in the Springtime" and "The Haunted Easter Egg" delighted his family. After graduating from Harvard University, he wor ked as an accompanist, eventually for the Boston Ballet. But the success of his books allowed him to quit and write full time. Sleator died in his beloved Thailand. He explored his fascination with Thai culture, and its embrace of the beautiful and the grotesque, in The Spirit House and other novels published by Dutton Children's Books. He followed
e ditor Susan Van Metre to Abrams in 2002, and published The Boy Who Couldn't Die as the lead title on the Amulet Books launch list in 2004. His final b ook, The Phantom Limb, will be published by Amulet Books in October. He is survived by his father and two brothers.
Praise for the work of William Sleator:
"Sleator is the master of the creepy-crawly." -The Horn Book
"This is an author who knows exactly what adolescents care about. . . . His genius is in taking vague science-fiction whimsy and using imagery to word -paint it into a stunning virtual reality. Nobody does it better!" -School Library Journal
"One of my favorite young adult writers." -R. L. Stine
JASON M. WELLS Executive Director, Publicity and Marketing Abrams Books for Young Readers | Amulet Books | Abrams Appleseed
ABRAMS | The Art of Books Since 1949 115 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 T 212.229.8826 | F 212.366.0809 | M: 646.456.5446 jwells_at_abramsbooks.com www.abramsbooks.com
Visit blog.abramsbooks.com Like ABRAMS Books on Facebook Follow us _at_ABRAMSBooks on Twitter
HAVE YOU READ THE DRAGON OF CRIPPLE CREEK by Troy Howell? This delightful debut novel by the illustrator of the REDWALL series covers is a heart-warming adventure about all that glitters versus all that matte rs. Never before have the American West and ancient dragons been rolled tog ether into one wild, tumbleweed tale.
From: Jason Wells
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:53 PM To: 'Lbhcove_at_aol.com'; ccbc-net@lists.wisc.edu Subject: RE:
SAD NEWS
Bill's last book, The Phantom Limb, will be published this October by Amule t Books.
We will share an obituary shortly. We are all very sad.
JASON M. WELLS Executive Director, Publicity and Marketing Abrams Books for Young Readers | Amulet Books | Abrams Appleseed
ABRAMS | The Art of Books Since 1949 115 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 T 212.229.8826 | F 212.366.0809 | M: 646.456.5446 jwells_at_abramsbooks.com www.abramsbooks.com
Visit blog.abramsbooks.com Like ABRAMS Books on Facebook Follow us _at_ABRAMSBooks on Twitter
HAVE YOU READ THE DRAGON OF CRIPPLE CREEK by Troy Howell? This delightful debut novel by the illustrator of the REDWALL series covers is a heart-warming adventure about all that glitters versus all that matte rs. Never before have the American West and ancient dragons been rolled tog ether into one wild, tumbleweed tale.
From: Lbhcove_at_aol.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2011 3:50 PM To: ccbc-net_at_lists.wisc.edu Subject:
SAD NEWS
William Sleator, author of many popular YA books, died yesterday at the age of 65.
Bill was a multi-talented man. It is so sad to lose someone so young.
Lee Bennett Hopkins
Visit my site at: www.leebennetthopkins.com
---Received on Wed 03 Aug 2011 09:36:40 PM CDT
