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Paula Fox

1923 - 2017

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Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Paula Fox is the 4,829th most popular writer (up from 4,953rd in 2019), the 7,262nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,901st in 2019) and the 550th most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Paula Fox ranks 4,829 out of 7,302. Before her are Shin Kyung-sook, Jakob Abbadie, Valentin Conrart, Mamoni Raisom Goswami, Göran Tunström, and Taylor Caldwell. After her are C. L. Moore, Sidney Howard, Horst Bienek, Roger Ascham, C. A. Rosetti, and Rosa Liksom.

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Among people born in 1923, Paula Fox ranks 310. Before her are Adolf Grünbaum, Juan Acuña, Vittorio De Seta, Helen Murray Free, V. N. Janaki, and Fats Navarro. After her are Shlomo Hillel, Patrick Moore, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Bülent Eken, Hanna Maron, and Geoff Duke. Among people deceased in 2017, Paula Fox ranks 365. Before her are Clifford Husbands, Osvaldo Fattori, István Szondy, Selena Rocky Malone, Warren Frost, and Robert Alt. After her are Smail Hamdani, Clare Hollingworth, Walter Kollmann, Míriam Colón, Robert Taylor, and Katy Bødtger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paula Fox ranks 7,264 out of 20,380. Before her are Hannibal Goodwin (1822), Madalyn Murray O'Hair (1919), Jess Willard (1881), Gary Lockwood (1937), Michael Bowen (1957), and Charles Fleischer (1950). After her are Frank Thomas (1912), C. L. Moore (1911), Chi McBride (1961), Sandra Bem (1944), Sidney Howard (1891), and Steve Aoki (1977).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Paula Fox ranks 550. Before her are Michael Cristofer (1945), David Eddings (1931), Marc Okrand (1948), Rube Goldberg (1883), David E. Kelley (1956), and Jonathan Carroll (1949). After her are C. L. Moore (1911), Sidney Howard (1891), Robert Leckie (1920), Jim Harrison (1937), Paul Theroux (1941), and Steven Millhauser (1943).

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