A lifetime of books: Valley author Jane Yolen achieves publishing milestone
Author Jane Yolen attributes her prolific output to professionalism and a commitment to her muse. FILE PHOTO
A book shelf in Jane Yolen s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60 year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
A bookcase in Jane Yolen’s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60-year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
A book shelf in Jane Yolen s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60 year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
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The latest thought criminal is a young lady at all-female Smith College in Northampton, MA who sent out an email announcing she was starting a sorority at Smith for straight girls who like to do girly stuff and meet boys from other colleges.
I got this idea because personally as a straight girl at Smith, I feel marginalized and I feel like the minority, and I think this could be a really great way to socialize with people we identify more with at smith, and to meet more guys.
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The first mixer is already plnned, wih the Amherst bball team this Friday (actually their idea!) What do you think?
A lifetime of books
Children’s book author Jane Yolen. FILE PHOTO
A book shelf in Jane Yolen s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60 year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
A bookcase in Jane Yolen’s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60-year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
A book shelf in Jane Yolen s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60 year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
A book shelf in Jane Yolen s Hatfield home where she keeps the 400 books she has published over her 60 year career. Contributed photo/Heidi Stemple
Most people wouldn’t generally consider April 1 to be an auspicious day. But April 1, 2021, happens to be the 20th anniversary of Art Pannonia in Blacksburg.
Prolific children’s author Jane Yolen readies 400th book
Updated Feb 28, 2021;
Posted Feb 28, 2021
Author Jane Yolen of Hatfield will publish her 400th book, Bear Outside, on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Photo by Jason Stemple)
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And although she is 82, she just might reach the 500 mark.
“I have 130 unsold manuscripts. I have about 30 already under contract and written and about 10 more promised, some written, some not,” Yolen said.
Inspired by her family, her new husband “and every single thing I read, watch, find, dream about or fear,” Yolen’s 400th book, “Bear Outside,” portrays the relationships people have with their inner selves. It will be published on Tuesday, March 2.