She was married in 1964 and moved to New Mexico with her new spouse, where she earned a teacher's certificate from St. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency in New York. Following her graduation in 1963, Voigt took a job with the J. It was at Smith that she began to consider writing as a potential career. After graduating from Dana High School in Wellesley, Massachusetts, in 1959 with distinction, Voigt began attending the prestigious Smith College, one of the seven so-called "Seven Sisters" of women's colleges in the Northeast. The second of five children, she was raised in rural Connecticut, where, like many future authors, she developed an early interest in reading. Voigt was born on February 25, 1942, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Frederick and Elise Irving. Able to cross between varieties of genre and audience with equal grace and sophistication, Voigt and her diverse canon of fantasy, realism, and picture books display a similarly unconventional narrative perspective that defines the author's style and voice. The second book in the series, Dicey's Song (1982), won the Newbery Medal, American children's literature highest honor, with A Solitary Blue (1983) earning a further Newbery Honor citation. Voigt is perhaps best known for her "Tillerman" novels, a seven-book series that explores the difficult adolescence of the four Tillerman children after their abandonment by their mother and adoption by their grandmother in rural Maryland.
INTRODUCTIONĪ versatile author who targets readers from pre-schoolers to adults, Voigt is a multiple award-winner whose novels recognize strong female protagonists and dysfunctional family relationships. For further information on her life and career, see CLR, Volumes 13 and 48.
The following entry presents an overview of Voigt's career through 2006. American novelist, editor, and author of young adult novels, juvenile novels, and picture books.
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