Karl, Jean

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Information for Authority record

Name (Latin)
Karl, Jean
Name (Arabic)
كارل، جين، 1927-
Other forms of name
Karl, Jean E
Date of birth
1927-07-29
Date of death
2000-03-30
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 16016663
Wikidata: Q6170603
Library of congress: n 50046497
BGU10: 000062258
Sources of Information
  • Her From childhood to childhood, 1970.
  • Her Strange tomorrow, c1985:CIP t.p. (Jean E. Karl)
  • How to write and sell children's picture books, 1994:CIP t.p. (Jean E. Karl) CIP data sheet (b. July 29, 1927)

Wikipedia description:

Jean Edna Karl (July 29, 1927 in Chicago, Illinois – March 30, 2000 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania) was an American book editor who specialized in children's and science fiction titles. She founded and led the children's division and young adult and science fiction imprints at Atheneum Books, where she oversaw or edited books that won two Caldecott Medals and five Newbery Medals. One of the Newberys went to the new writer E. L. Konigsburg in 1968 for From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.

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