Esther Rudomin (Esther Rudomin) Hautzig (1930-) Biography - Career, Awards, Honors, Writings, Sidelights - Personal, Member

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Born 1930, in Vilna, Poland (now Vilnius, Lithuania); immigrated to United States in 1947, naturalized U.S. citizen in 1951; Education: Attended Hunter College (now Hunter College of the City University of New York), 1948-50. Religion: Jewish.

Authors Guild, Authors League of America.

"FOUR LANGUAGES" SERIES; ALL CONTAIN TEXT IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, FRENCH, AND RUSSIAN

In the Park: An Excursion in Four Languages, illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1968.

At Home: A Visit in Four Languages, illustrated by Aliki, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1968.

In School: Learning in Four Languages, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1969.

Also author of foreward to Betsy's Wedding by Maud Hart Lovelace, HarperTrophy (New York, NY), 1996; author of introduction to Vilna by Israel Cohen, reprinted by Jewish Publication Society (Philadelphia, PA), 1992.

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Esther Rudomin (Esther Rudomin) Hautzig (1930-) - Career

Writer, publicist. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY, secretary, 1951-52; Children's Book Council, New York, NY, publicity assistant, 1953; Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, NY, director of children's book promotion, 1954-59, consultant, 1961-68; freelance children's book consultant, New York, NY, 1959—. Three-time speaker at the Summer Institutes of the Children�…

Esther Rudomin (Esther Rudomin) Hautzig (1930-) - Awards, Honors

Sydney Taylor Children's Book Award, AJL, Book World Book Festival honor book, Notable Book selection, American Library Association (ALA), Outstanding Children's Book citation, New York Times, and Boston Globe/Horn Book honor book, all 1968, Jane Addams Children's Book Award, Shirley Kravitz Award, Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL), and National Book Award finalist, Fanfar…

Esther Rudomin (Esther Rudomin) Hautzig (1930-) - Writings

(Under name Esther Rudomin) Let's Cook without Cooking: Fifty-five Recipes without a Stove, illustrated by Lisl Weil, Crowell (New York, NY), 1955, reprinted as Arrow Book of Easy Cooking, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1962. Let's Make Presents: 100 Easy-to-Make Gifts under $1.00, illustrated by Ava Morgan, Crowell (New York, NY), 1962. Redecorating Your Room for Practically Nothing, il…

Esther Rudomin (Esther Rudomin) Hautzig (1930-) - Sidelights

"Haunting and spellbinding" is how School Library Journal critic Carol Fazioli summed up Esther Rudomin Hautzig's National Book Award-nominated autobiography The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, a book that made Hautzig's name in literary circles. Polish by birth, American by nationality, Hautzig suffered persecution at the hands of the Soviets and lived to tell o…

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