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Marilyn Singer
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Name
Marilyn Singer
Role
Singer-songwriter
Music group
Band Aid (1984)
Albums
Despite Straight Lines
Parents
Peter Robinson, Margaret Robinson
Record labels
Cherry Red Records, Phonogram Records
Similar People
Gavin Rossdale, Boy George, Claudia Fontaine, Midge Ure, Bob Geldof
Marilyn Singer (born 1948) is an award-winning author of children's books in a wide variety of genres, including fiction and non-fiction picture books, juvenile novels and mysteries, young adult fantasies, and poetry. [1]
In 1974, after teaching English in New York City high schools for several years, Marilyn began to write – initially film notes, catalogues, teacher's guides and film strips. Then, one day, when she was sitting in the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Marilyn penned a story featuring talking insect characters she'd made up when she was eight. Encouraged by the responses she got, Marilyn wrote more stories and in 1976 her first book, The Dog Who Insisted He Wasn't, was published by E. P. Dutton.
Since then, Marilyn has published over one hundred books for children and young adults. Her genres are many and varied, including realistic novels, fantasies, non-fiction, fairy tales, picture books, mysteries and poetry.
1971. Education: Attended University of Reading, UK, 1967–68; Queens College of the City University of New York, B.A. (cum laude), 1969; New York University, M.A., 1979.
Awards and nominations
Mirror, Mirror
Cybil Award for Poetry, 2011
ALA Notable, 2011
CLA/NCTE Notable, 2011
Nominee, Texas Bluebonnet Award
Capitol Choice Book
6 starred reviews
Chicago Public Library's Best of the Best, 2009 (Eggs and First Food Fight This Fall)
Celebrating Poetry: Marilyn Singer, Part 1, Part 2
The New York State Reading Association Youth Book Blog (interview)
Reading Rockets: A video interview with Marilyn Singer (video interview)
The Miss Rumphius Effect (interview)
David Harrison's Blog (interview)
Cynthia Leitich Smith's Cynsations (interview)
TeensReadToo.com (interview)
Who Wrote That? by Patricia M. Newman (interview)
"Sidelights Sketch" from Something About the Author, Vols. 80 & 125 (article about Marilyn Singer)
WritingWorld.com (interview)
"I don't know if I have a single poem that defines me. A lot of people think of me as a "nature poet" because I love writing about the natural world. But I also like to create characters and use them as narrators, and I'm fond of really silly verse." [4]
Singer actually sits and writes with pen in hand for three to four hours a day. "But I think writing for twenty-four, it seems. I like to write in cafes, restaurants, subways—it's not fixed." [5]
PEN American Center participating author
Teaching Pre-K-8
Commitment
New York Times review of "City Lullaby" November 2007