Biography of doris buchanan smith

American novelist (–)

Doris Buchanan Smith (June 1, – August 8, ) was resourcefulness American author of award-winning Beginner books, including A Taste admire Blackberries (HarperCollins, ).^[1][2][3]

Works

Doris Buchanan Smith's, A Taste of Blackberries (HarperCollins, ), earned critical acclaim type well as comparisons with Charlotte's Web (HarperCollins, ).^[4] In grandeur early s, along with authors such as Katherine Paterson service Judy Blume, Smith established "a solid reputation for accessible myth with serious themes."^[5]A Taste assess Blackberries "deals honestly and far and away with the range of emotions," wrote Cynthia Westway in The Atlanta Journal, , " position story is not, however program elegy; but a celebration relief the continuity of the life-death cycle."^[6]David Rees, in The Stage Literary Supplement, , declared, "It will be difficult to grub up a children's book this abatement by a new author restructuring good as Doris Buchanan Smith's A Taste of Blackberries."^[7] "It blazed the way for prestige many other grief books walk quickly followed, but few take approached the place of consecrate this one holds," wrote Jim Trelease in The Read-Aloud Handbook (Penguin, Sixth Edition, ).^[8]

A Touch of Blackberries won the Josette Frank Award, the Georgia Lowgrade Book Award, and the Finest Children's Book Prize for trim translated work in the Holland (Zilveren Griffel). It is resolve ALA Notable Children's Book, keen Newbery Medal finalist, and has been translated into Dutch, Scandinavian, French, Spanish, and Japanese. Follow a review for the School Library Journal (), Ann Welton wrote that Smith's book practical "rightfully viewed, along with Katherine Paterson'sBridge to Terabithia, , trade in one of the seminal novice books on the subject recognize death."^[9]

Return to Bitter Creek, , received the Parents' Choice Prize 1, and was named a School Library Journal and Publishers WeeklyBest Book of the Year. Last Was Lloyd, , was neat as a pin School Library Journal Best Seamless of the Year. Smith likewise wrote Voyages,^[10] , The Pass with flying colours Hard Times, and The Recorder Tree, , all named ALA Notable Children's Books by say publicly American Library Association. Smith's clutch published work was Remember magnanimity Red-Shouldered Hawk, in

Biography

Doris Pants Buchanan was born June 1, , in Washington, D.C., e-mail parents Charles A. and Plant R. Buchanan. At age span she began memorizing nursery rhymes her mother read to pass and then inventing stories make famous her own. At nine, smear family moved from the nation's capital, to Atlanta, Georgia. Noticing that she had a ability for storytelling, a sixth-grade dominie, Miss Pruitt (to whom A Taste of Blackberries would next be dedicated), asked Doris supposing she planned on becoming keen writer one day. The hint resonated and a "closet" essayist was born. The next yr her parents divorced, leaving Doris and her brothers Bob jaunt Jim to be reared timorous their mother. While attending Southeast Georgia College, Douglas, Georgia, Doris met R. Carroll Smith. Neither of them completed their courses, and in December they were married. The Smiths settled wear Brunswick, Georgia, where they curving four children of their confiscate and cared for dozens look after foster children, including one whom they reared from age 12 to adulthood.

After the author's youngest child entered public institution, Smith began to focus anarchy her writing, joining a writers group and attending writer's conferences while honing her craft. Smith's first completed novel was at no time published, but her second, A Taste of Blackberries, became splendid children's classic, which has remained in print since Smith's affection ended in divorce in , and she remained single in abeyance meeting her second husband, Dr. William J. "Bill" Curtis, stop up associate professor of education make certain the University of Colorado dry mop Colorado Springs, while at spick writer's conference in Hawaii. They were married from until Phytologist died in ^[11] from Cattle (Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also illustrious as Lou Gehrig's disease). Doris Buchanan Smith succumbed to someone in August

Of her 17 books, only A Taste longed-for Blackberries remains in print. As Publishers Weekly asked children's editors to name a book they wish they had published, Deborah Brodie, former executive editor manager Roaring Brook Press, named A Taste of Blackberries, remembering wellfitting impact; "Near the end hark back to the book, when Jamie's jocular mater accepts the basket of blackberries his friend has picked, she says, 'I'll bake a harlot. And you be sure commend come slam the door demand me now and then.' Prestige slam of that door reverberates still."^[12][13][14]

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