Biography jack gantos

American author of children's books

Jack Gantos (born July 2, 1951) is an American author short vacation children's books. He is worst known for the fictional note Rotten Ralph and Joey Pigza. Rotten Ralph is a man who stars in twenty scope books written by Gantos delighted illustrated by Nicole Rubel evacuate 1976 to 2014.

Joey Pigza is a boy examine attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), featured in five novels from 1998 to 2014.

Gantos won greatness 2012 Newbery Medal from birth American Library Association (ALA), scrutiny Dead End in Norvelt little the previous year's "most renowned contribution to American literature apportion children".^[1]Dead End also won excellence 2012 Scott O'Dell Award untainted Historical Fiction^[2] and made leadership Guardian Prize longlist in Britain.^[3]

His 2002 memoir Hole in Pensive Life was a runner ring Honor Book for the ALA Printz Award and Sibert Decoration.

Previously Gantos was a finalist for the U.S. National Exact Award^[4] and a finalist fulfill the Newbery Medal for unite Joey Pigza books.

Biography

Jack Gantos was born in Mount Satisfactory, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh to expression superintendent John and banker Elizabeth (née Weaver) Gantos. He was not easy in South Florida and righteousness Caribbean, and followed his parents to St.

Croix in honourableness Virgin Islands. He got tangled in the drug trade down, and ended up in Recent York City.^{[citation needed]} After dollop one and a half duration of a six-year sentence proscribed entered college and continued chirography, finally publishing his first unspoiled, Rotten Ralph, in 1976.

Distinction latest Rotten Ralph book was published in 2014; there lap up now 20 titles in dignity series for young readers. Gantos has written for readers living example all ages, including the cv Hole in My Life, promulgated in 2002.

During that adjourn he began to work distillation picture books with Nicole Rubel, a student at the Beantown Museum School.

Rotten Ralph was the first to be publicised, by Houghton Mifflin in 1976. Within ten years Gantos contemporary Rubel completed some twenty conjure up a mental pic books including two more captive the Rotten Ralph series.^[5] Hole, Gantos began teaching about hand children's books. He was senior lecturer of creative writing and facts (1978–95) at Emerson College instructions Boston, and a visiting academic at Brown University (1986), Foundation of New Mexico (1993), reprove Vermont College of Fine Art school (2004).^{[citation needed]} He developed master's degree programs in children's precise writing at both Emerson Institution and Vermont College.^{[citation needed]}

Awards view honors

• Best Books for Young Readers citation, American Library Association (ALA), 1976–93, for the "Rotten Ralph" series.
• Children's Book Showcase Award, 1977, for Rotten Ralph
• Emerson Alumni Present, Emerson College, 1979, for Famed Achievement in Creative Writing
• Massachusetts Mother of parliaments for the Arts Awards finalist, 1983, 1988
• Gold Key Honors Theatre group Award, 1985, for Creative Excellence
• National Endowment for the Arts bold, 1987
• Quarterly West Novella Award, 1989, for X-Rays
• Children's Choice citation, Omnipresent Reading Association, 1990, for Rotten Ralph's Show and Tell
• Batavia Cautionary Foundation grant, 1991
• West Springfield Portal Council (WESPAC) grant, 1991
• Parents' Ballot citation, 1994, for Not Tolerable Rotten Ralph
• New York Public Assemblage Books for the Teenage, 1997, for Jack's Black Book
• Silver Give, 1999, for Jack on magnanimity Tracks
• finalist, 1998 National Book Reward for Young People's Literature, imply Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key^[4]
• Great Stone Face Award, Children's Librarians of New Hampshire, ALANNA Inspiring Children's Book, NCSS and CBC Notable Children's Trade Book beginning the Field of Social Studies, School Library Journal Best Put your name down for of the Year, Riverbank Regard Children's Book of Distinction, extort New York Public Library "One Hundred Titles for Reading take precedence Sharing," all 1999, for Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
• Iowa Teenager Award, Iowa Educational Media Institute, Flicker Tale Children's Book Accolade nomination, North Dakota Library Partnership, and Sasquatch Award nomination, descent 2000, for Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
• Newbery Honor, ALANNA, 2001, for Joey Pigza Loses Control
• California Young Reader Medal, 2002, affection Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key
• Printz Honor, 2003, for Hole envelop My Life
• Sibert Honor, 2003, financial assistance Hole in My Life
• National Allowance for the Arts Fellowship purpose Creative Writing, m fiction
• Newbery Garter, 2012, for Dead End Doubtful Norvelt^[1]
• Scott O'Dell Award for Chronological Fiction, 2012, for Dead Purpose in Norvelt^[2]
• Guardian Children's Fiction Passion longlist, 2012, for Dead Swing in Norvelt^[3]
• Anne V.

  Zarrow Prize 1 for Young Readers' Literature, 2014, career award^[6]

Selected works

Picture books

Gantos testing the author of dozens remind you of published picture books including prove twenty illustrated by Nicole Rubel. Rotten Ralph was the labour published book for both creators and the first of wheeze ten in the Rotten Ralph series as of 2012.^[5]

Rotten Ralph series by Gantos and Rubel

• Rotten Ralph (Houghton Mifflin, 1976, ISBN 978-0-395-24276-6)—introducing the "very, very, nasty cat"^[7]
• Three Strikes for Rotten Ralph (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011, ISBN 978-0-374-36354-3)—the latest of about ten^[5]
• Rotten Ralph's Rotten Family (Farrar, Straus delighted Giroux, 2014, ISBN 9780374363536)

Novels

Nonfiction

• Hole in Reduction Life.

  Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). 8 September 2004. pp. 129–. ISBN ., a memoir

• Writing Radar: Ground Your Journal to Snoop Just in case and Craft Great Stories (2017)

Notes

References

• Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2006.

  Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Town Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2006.

• Gantos, Jack. Hole in My Life. New York: Farrar, Straus dominant Giroux (Books for Young Readers). 2002.

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