Six colleges and universities have given her honorary doctorates for her body of work, so–she jokingly says–you could call her Dr. Also the DuGrummond Medal and the Kerlan Award, and the Ann Izard story-telling award at least three times. Plus she has won both the Association of Jewish Libraries Award and the Catholic Libraries Medal.
She has also won the World Fantasy Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the Science Fiction Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, and the Science Fiction Poetry Associations Grand Master Award (the three together she calls the Trifecta). Jane Yolen’s books and stories and poems have won the Caldecott Medal, two Nebula Awards, two Christopher Medals, three World Fantasy Awards, three Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards, two Golden Kite Awards, the Jewish Book Award and the Massachusetts Center for the Book award.
After a decade living self-sufficiently and teaching literacy to adults in Ireland, she now lives in Pennsylvania. She is a faculty member of the Writing for Children and Young Adults MFA program at Vermont College of Fine Arts and spends many months of the year traveling the country speaking to high school and university students, educators, and humans who care about the mental health of young people. Edwards Award for her significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature. She also writes Middle Grade fiction as Amy Sarig King, including Attack of the Black Rectangles.
Printz Honor Book Please Ignore Vera Dietz among others. Printz Award winner and LA Times Book Prize finalist DIG, 2016's Still Life with Tornado, 2015’s surrealist I Crawl Through It, Glory O'Brien's History of the Future, Reality Boy, the 2012 Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner Ask the Passengers, Everybody Sees the Ants, 2011 Michael L. King, she is the author of highly-acclaimed novels including 2021's SW/TCH, 2020 Michael L. writers working today” by the New York Times Book Review. Please join LILRC for a moderated conversation with award-winning authors Amy Sarig King ( Attack of the Black Rectangles) and Jane Yolen ( The Devil’s Arithmetic) on the topics of censorship in children’s and young adult literature.Īmy Sarig King has been called “One of the best Y.A.
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