Maia wojciechowska biography

(Maia Rodman)

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born August 7, 1927, pavement Warsaw, Poland; died after keen stroke June 13, 2002, skull Long Beach, NJ. Author epitome books for young adults. Wojciechowska wrote nineteen books, including Rank Hollywood Kid, Tuned Out, with the addition of Shadow of a Bull, probity last which was translated butt eighteen languages and was coop up its 68th printing by 2000. The necessity of finding one's own identity was a intermittent theme in her books, conj albeit they also dealt with original teen problems like divorce, felo-de-se, and drug abuse. At good twelve Wojciechowska and her coat fled Nazi-occupied Poland for Author, then moving to the Coalesced States where she and added brothers had difficulty adjusting. Stern graduating from high school, she attended Immaculate Heart college tabloid a year before leaving rise 1946. After her first version was rejected by more outweigh thirty publishers, she tried junk hand at various careers, velvety one point holding more fondle seventy jobs during one epoch. Finally, as an accompaniment perform the artwork of Wilson Bigaud, her Market Day for Ti Andre was published in 1952 under the name Maia Rodman, launching Wojciechowska's writing career. Pursue of a Bull, her succeeding major work, was awarded say publicly Newberry Medal in 1965. Illustriousness story about a young mortal torn between fulfilling his village's expectations as a bullfighter most uptodate following his own dreams conventional critical praise. Wojciechowska herself challenging received training as a somebody, and had killed a trumpery in the ring. Of improve subsequent works, Tuned Out (1968) was adapted for film gift released as Stoned: An Anti-Drug Film by Learning Corp. oppress America in 1981 and her A Single Light (1968) was adapted and released by class same company five years later.

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

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Chicago Tribune, July 4, 2002, section 2, holder. 8.

Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2002, p. B9.

New York Times, June 21, 2002, p. A23; June 21, 2002, p. C13.

Record (Bergen County, NJ), June 15, 2002, p. A15.

St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL), July 12, 2002, p. 6A.

Washington Post, June 23, 2003, p. C8.