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Ursula Nordstrom

Born

in New York City, The United States

January 01, 1910

Died

January 01, 1988

Genre

Children's Books, Biographies & Memoirs

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Ursula Nordstrom is primarily known as one of the twentieth century's great editors --- as many have remarked, "The Maxwell Perkins of children's literature." Yet besides being an editor, she was also the author of two remarkable novels, one published, The Secret Language (1972), and the second --- now lost forever --- unpublished.

She was publisher and editor in chief of juvenile books at Harper & Row from 1940 to 1973. A collection of her correspondence was published in 1998 as Dear Genius: the Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

Nordstrom is credited with presiding over a transformation in children's literature in which morality tales written for adult approval gave way to works that instead appealed to children's imaginations and emotions.

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Average rating: 4.23 · 1,669 ratings · 267 reviews · 7 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World by Mackenzi Lee (Goodreads Author), Lucy James (Narrator), Xi Ling Shi (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 4,062 ratings — published 2018 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Secret Language 4.14 avg rating — 988 ratings — published 1960 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom by Ursula Nordstrom, Leonard S. Marcus (Editor), Maurice Sendak (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 661 ratings — published 1998 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Girl 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	[Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom] [By: Marcus, Leonard S.] [March, 2000] by Ursula Nordstrom, Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I am a former child, and I haven't forgotten a thing.”
― Ursula Nordstrom, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

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“The creative artist is the one wanting to make order out of chaos. The rest of us just accept disorder -if we even recognize it- and get a bang out of our five beautiful senses, if we’re lucky.”
― Ursula Nordstrom, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

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“I never want to forget that if Lewis Carroll had asked me whether or not he should bother writing about a little girl named Alice who fell asleep and dreamed that she had a lot of adventures down a rabbit hole, it would not have sounded awfully tempting to any editor.”
― Ursula Nordstrom, Dear Genius: The Letters of Ursula Nordstrom

tags: children-s-books, creativity, stories, writing

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