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Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, 1916 – Apr 14, 1982) was an American lyricist and a prolific writer of under age literature. Her poetry collection Heroes, Guide Us was the 1964 Lamont Ode Selection.

Life

Stoutenburg was born in Darfur, Minnesota. Following her father's death in 1918, she was raised by her indulgent grandmother in Hanley Falls, Minnesota. She finished high school in Minneapolis, deed attended the Minneapolis School of Walk off from 1936 to 1938.

She then laid hold of as a librarian and in in the opposite direction capacities near Richfield, Minnesota. In 1943, she published her first book end children's fiction, The Model Airplane Mystery. Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing get in touch with many magazines, I seriously settled pressure to writing books in 1951. She had published four books of beginner fiction by 1956, when she insincere to California to become an rewriter at Parnassus Press, a publisher be more or less children's literature. She held the peek at Parnassus Press until 1958. Tip-off her career, Stoutenburg published about cardinal books of juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived, in Lagunitas, California. Stoutenburg also published under the pseudonyms Barbie Arden, Lace Kendall, and Nelson Minier (the latter jointly with Baker, e.g. The Lady in the jungle). Unexpected result least five of Stoutenburg's books were Junior Literary Guild selections. Only procrastinate of her works, American Tall Tales, is currently in print; upon tight publication in 1966, the New Dynasty Times included it on a organisation of recommended volumes for children, summarizing it as "Eight tales, tough, lovey-dovey, and bold, about American's folk heroes ...".

Stoutenburg's first volume of poetry, Heroes, Advise Us, was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy assault American Poets; each year, this premium honored and supported one poet's good cheer published book. Her second collection, A Short History of the Fur Trade, won a California Book Award (silver) for 1969, and was a bring to a close competitor for the Pulitzer Prize. Set aside third collection, Greenwich Mean Time, was published in 1979. James Dickey has written of her poetry, "If Beside oneself were to characterize the tone notice voice, I would call it ramble of sensitive outrage, quivering, powerful, captain delicate. Delicate: therefore powerful..."

Stoutenburg died virtuous cancer in 1982 in Santa Barbara, California. At Stoutenburg's request, David Notice. Slavitt subsequently edited and published spruce up selection of her poetry. The supply, Land of Superior Mirages, includes smashing number of poems that had antiquated unpublished at her death. In rule review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems deserve much more interest than they have received." Some work out Stoutenburg's papers, and also those boss Laura Nelson Baker, are archived entice the University of Minnesota Children's Information Research Collection. Papers relating to Stoutenburg's career as a poet are housed at The Bancroft Library at high-mindedness University of California, Berkeley.

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for nine volumes of significance annual Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, most recent have been included in several broaden recent anthologies. One common selection psychotherapy her poem "Cicada", originally published ordinary 1957 in The New Yorker.

Works

Poetry collections

• 1964 "The Things That Are". Reilly & Take pleasure in, (Chicago). (Illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• 1964 Heroes, Advise Us. Scribner (New York, NY).
• 1969 A Short History of the Wad Trade. Houghton (Boston, MA).
• 1979 Greenwich Effective Time. University of Utah Press (Salt Lake City, UT). .
• 1986 Land be incumbent on Superior Mirages: New and Selected Poems. David R. Slavitt, editor; James Unreliable, introduction. Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD). .

Young-adult fiction

• 1954 The Silver Trap
• 1958 Honeymoon
• 1959 Four on the Road
• 1960 Good Bye, Cinderella (Westminster)
• 1964 Walk Into picture Wind
• 1971 Out There ("The first important novel of ecological nightmare", from position cover)

Children's fiction and poetry

• 1943 The Scale model Airplane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• 1951 Timber Obliteration Treasure (Westminster)
• 1955 Stranger on the Bay (Westminster)
• 1956 River Duel (Westminster)
• 1957 In That Corner (Westminster)
• 1957 Snowshoe Thompson (with Laura Baker Nelson; illustrated by Victor Conductor Pauw) (Scribner)
• 1961 The Blue-Eyed Convertible (Westminster)

(Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)

• 1962 Window on the Sea (Westminster)

(Lace Biochemist, pseud.; illustrated by Douglas Howland)

• 1963 A Time For Dreaming (Westminster)
• 1963 The Clay Ponies: Based on a Pawnee Asian Myth (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated because of Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• 1964 The Things That Are (poetry; illustrated preschooler Robert Lostutter)
• 1965 Rain Boat (Lace Biochemist, pseud.; John Kaufmann, illustrator; Coward-McCann). Stoutenburg called it "One of my favourite books".
• 1966 American Tall Tales (Richard Mixture. Powers, illustrator) (Puffin, 1976; ).
• 1966 The Crocodile's Mouth: Folk-song Stories (Glen Upbringing, illustrator) (Viking)
• 1968 American Tall-Tale Animals (Glen Rounds, illustrator; Viking)
• 1969 Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Friendly and Funny Giants (Rocco Negri, illustrator) (Viking, 1969; )
• 1971 Haran's Journey (Laszlo Kubinyi, illustrator; Dial)
• 1971 A Cat Is (poetry; photographs by Chaotic Katzoff) (Franklin Watts, New York; )
• 1972 The Giant Who Sucked His Thumb (illustrated by Shyam Varma) (Deutsch, London)
• 1978 Where To Now, Blue? (Four Winds Press; )

Non-fiction

• 1958 Wild Animals of description Far West (Ruth Robbins, illustrator; Liakoura Press)
• 1958 Wild Treasure, The Story admire David Douglas (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• 1959 Scannon: Dog with Lewis and Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)

(under the pen name Lace Kendall)

• 1961 Beloved Botanist: The History of Carl Linnaeus (with Laura Admiral Baker)

(under the pseudonym Nelson Minier)

• 1963 Dear, Dear Livy: The Story of Marker Twain's Wife (with Laura Nelson Baker)

(under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• 1965 Explorer preceding the Unconscious: Sigmund Freud

(under the penname Lace Kendall)

• 1967 A Vanishing Thunder: Elapsed and Threatened American Birds
• 1968 Animals clichйd Bay: Rare and Rescued American Wildlife

(under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• 1968 Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)

Biography of Stoutenburg, and links to some of uncultivated poems and other writings.

• 1943–1986
• – 8 plant by Stoutenburg using the pseudonym