Adrien Stoutenburg was an American poet and a prolific writer of juvenile literature.
11 Facts About Adrien Stoutenburg
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Adrien Stoutenburg finished high school in Minneapolis, and attended the Minneapolis School of Art from 1936 to 1938.
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Adrien Stoutenburg then worked as a librarian and in other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.
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Adrien Stoutenburg had published four books of children's fiction by 1956, when she moved to California to become an editor at Parnassus Press, a publisher of children's literature.
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Adrien Stoutenburg held the position at Parnassus Press until 1958.
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Over her career, Adrien Stoutenburg published about forty books of juvenile fiction and non-fiction.
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Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker, with whom Adrien Stoutenburg lived, in Lagunitas, California.
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At least five of Adrien Stoutenburg's books were Junior Literary Guild selections.
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Adrien Stoutenburg's second collection, A Short History of the Fur Trade, won a California Book Award for 1969, and was a close competitor for the Pulitzer Prize.
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Adrien Stoutenburg died of cancer in 1982 in Santa Barbara, California.
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Adrien Stoutenburg's poems were selected for nine volumes of the annual Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards, and have been included in several more recent anthologies.