Nancy willard biography

American writer

Nancy Willard (June 26, 1936 – February 19, 2017)^[1] was an American writer: novelist, poet, author and occasional illustrator of children's books.

She won the 1982 Newbery Medal for A Visit to William Blake's Inn.^[2]

Biography

Willard was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she later received the B.A. and Ph.D.

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from the University of Michigan and won five Hopwood Awards for creative writing. She also studied at Stanford University, where she received her M.A.^[3]

Her first novel,^{[clarification needed]}Things Invisible to See (1985), is set in her home town of Ann Arbor in the 1940s.

Two brothers become involved with a paralyzed young woman, and it "ends with a baseball game that anticipates the film Field of Dreams in its player lineup of baseball luminaries. Susan Fromberg Schaeffer said the novel 'has the quality of a fairy tale ...

a paradigm of life as a Manichean conflict between good a