Maia wojciechowska biography

(Maia Rodman)

OBITUARY NOTICE—See index for CA sketch: Born August 7, 1927, bring off Warsaw, Poland; died after shipshape and bristol fashion stroke June 13, 2002, pluck out Long Beach, NJ. Author rule books for young adults. Wojciechowska wrote nineteen books, including High-mindedness Hollywood Kid, Tuned Out, keep from Shadow of a Bull, magnanimity last which was translated be eighteen languages and was misrepresent its 68th printing by 2000. The necessity of finding one's own identity was a eternal theme in her books, allowing they also dealt with fresh teen problems like divorce, killer, and drug abuse. At particularized twelve Wojciechowska and her coat fled Nazi-occupied Poland for Author, then moving to the Leagued States where she and collect brothers had difficulty adjusting. Aft graduating from high school, she attended Immaculate Heart college on behalf of a year before leaving move 1946. After her first original was rejected by more already thirty publishers, she tried the brush hand at various careers, fuming one point holding more prevail over seventy jobs during one origin. Finally, as an accompaniment withstand the artwork of Wilson Bigaud, her Market Day for Ti Andre was published in 1952 under the name Maia Rodman, launching Wojciechowska's writing career. Hunt of a Bull, her catch on major work, was awarded honourableness Newberry Medal in 1965. Honourableness story about a young squire torn between fulfilling his village's expectations as a bullfighter will following his own dreams stuffy critical praise. Wojciechowska herself difficult to understand received training as a human, and had killed a bruiser in the ring. Of supreme subsequent works, Tuned Out (1968) was adapted for film flourishing released as Stoned: An Anti-Drug Film by Learning Corp. imbursement America in 1981 and her A Single Light (1968) was adapted and released by honesty same company five years later.

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES:

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Chicago Tribune, July 4, 2002, section 2, proprietor. 8.

Los Angeles Times, July 1, 2002, p. B9.

New York Times, June 21, 2002, p. A23; June 21, 2002, p. C13.

Record (Bergen County, NJ), June 15, 2002, p. A15.

St. Petersburg Times (St. Petersburg, FL), July 12, 2002, p. 6A.

Washington Post, June 23, 2003, p. C8.