ADRIEN STOUTENBURG

Biography

Adrien Stoutenburg
(19161982) American poet and writer of juvenile literature. born in Darfur, Minnesota.

Her Works
She

then worked as a librarian and in other capacities in Minnesota. In 1943, she published her first book of children's fiction: The

Model Airplane Mystery.

Her life as a writer

In 1956 she published four books of children's fiction. she moved to California to become an editor at Parnassus Press, a publisher of children's literature.

Her career
Over her career, she published about forty books of juvenile fiction and non-fiction. Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived. Stoutenburg also published under the pseudonyms Barbie Arden, Lace Kendall, and Nelson Minier.
Laura Nelson Barker

Her career
At least five of Stoutenburg's books were Junior Literary Guild selections. Only one of her works, American Tall Tales, is currently in print; upon its publication in 1966

Her collections
Stoutenburg's first volume of poetry: Heroes, Advise Us, was the 1964 Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets. Her second collection: A Short History of the Fur Trade, won a California Book Award (silver) for 1969 Her third collection: Greenwich Mean Time, published in 1979.

Her Death
Stoutenburg

died of cancer in 1982 in Santa Barbara, California. David R. Slavitt subsequently edited and published a selection of her poetry. The volume, Land of Superior Mirages.