Books By Jane Yolen, Kelly Murphy - Author

Poet, writer, and the author of numerous picture books, and editor of several anthologies including Here's a Little Poem., About Me: I was born on February 11, 1939 in New York City, the first child of my parents, Isabel and Will Yolen. Because my grandmother Mina Hyatt Yolen's family--the Hyatts--only had girls, a number of us were given their last name as a middle name. So I am Jane Hyatt Yolen. Alas, I am no relation to the Hyatt Hotels, no matter how often I have tried to convince the staffs there. My father was a journalist, writing for the New York newspapers. My mother was a psychiatric social worker until I was born. After that, she never held another full-time paid job (though she did volunteer work), but wrote short stories that didn't sell and made crossword puzzles and acrostics that did. When my father got a higher paying job as a publicity flack for Hollywood movies, we moved to California. I was barely one. We stayed there for a couple of years while he worked on such movies as AMERICAN TRAGEDY