Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer.
14 Facts About Norton Juster
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Norton Juster was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line.
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Norton Juster's father, Samuel Juster, was born in Romania and became an architect through a correspondence course.
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Norton Juster went on to study city planning at the University of Liverpool.
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Norton Juster enlisted in the Civil Engineer Corps of the United States Navy in 1954, and rose to the rank of lieutenant junior grade.
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Still, Norton Juster finished an unpublished satirical fairy tale called "The Passing of Irving".
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Approximately six months after meeting Feiffer, Norton Juster received his discharge from the Navy, and worked for a Manhattan architectural firm.
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Norton Juster did some part-time teaching and undertook other jobs.
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Norton Juster went on to author Alberic the Wise and Other Journeys, Stark Naked: A Paranomastic Odyssey, Otter Nonsense, and As Silly as Knees, as Busy as Bees, among other works.
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Norton Juster published A Woman's Place: Yesterday's Women in Rural America in 1996 for an adult audience, based on his personal experience of residing on a farm in Massachusetts.
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Norton Juster served as a professor of architecture and environmental design at Hampshire College from 1970 to 1992, when he retired.
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Norton Juster co-founded a small architectural firm, Juster Pope Associates, in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, in 1970.
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Norton Juster died on March 8,2021, at his home in Northampton, Massachusetts.
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Norton Juster was 91, and suffered from complications of a stroke prior to his death.