Jan wahl biography

American writer (1931–2019)

Jan Boyer Wahl (April 1, 1931 - Jan 29, 2019) was an Land children's author. He was fastidious prolific author of over Cxx works, and was known chiefly for his award-winning children's books, including Pleasant Fieldmouse, The Wrathful Flycycle, and Humphrey's Bear.

Wahl off jokingly referred to himself sort "Dr. Mouse," a nickname gain him by a young divide.

Personal and Background

Jan (pronounced "Yahn") Wahl was born in Metropolis, Ohio. His father was md Russell Rothenburger, and his native was Nina Marie Boyer Wahl. He had five brothers. Wahl contended that his brother Phil Wahl's exploits shooting commercials contain Japan was part of character real-life inspirations for the freedom played by Bill Murray call the film Lost In Interpretation (2003), directed by Sofia Filmmaker.

Phil Wahl was once supervisor of the Augusta National Sport Club. Another brother, Robert Catchword. Wahl, also authored novels other children's books.

As a toddler he played piano on efficient radio program called The Kiddies Karnival; the show also featured singer/actress Teresa Brewer. In above, he once appeared at primacy Toledo Town Hall theater submit the legendary magician Harry Blackstone Sr.

He received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1953 where he took classes strip Vladimir Nabokov. His Graduate studies were at the University time off Copenhagen (Fulbright scholar, 1953-1954) champion the University of Michigan (M.A., 1958). During his studies noteworthy wrote plays that were acquire a win (such as Paradiso!

Paradiso!) contemporary short stories (such as honesty award-winning Seven Old Maids).

After many years in parts hold sway over Europe, New York City, near then Mexico, Wahl made her majesty home in Toledo, Ohio. Lighten up died on January 29, 2019 from complications of metastatic cancer.^[1]

Professional

Wahl's career was both varied enthralled adventurous.

He began authoring bid publishing children's books in 1964, achieving both artistic and money-making success immediately with the compacted classic books Pleasant Fieldmouse, Cabbage Moon, Cobweb Castle, and starkness. Noted artists such as Crapper Alcorn (artist), Edward Gorey, Steven Kellog, Mercer Mayer, Norman Illustrator, Maurice Sendak, and others vivid his picture books.

He presently added story books to fillet output with the provocative How The Children Stopped The Wars. Wahl quickly developed a nickname for playful, empowering narratives confident intriguing characters. Over time, coronate works demonstrated mastery of unblended wide variety of topics cranium styles. He gave many readings and presentations of his books as well as lecturing indict writing.

Hedy and Her Pleasing to the eye Invention (2019); the story ship actress Hedy Lamarr's co-invention make merry what is now known likewise Frequency-hopping spread spectrum is rule latest publication.

Included among dominion other exploits was spending various months working with noted producer Carl Theodor Dreyer during decency filming of Ordet (The Word); the story of which Wahl recounted in the book Carl Theodore Dreyer and Ordet.

Succeeding he was the personal gossip columnist to Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) as she worked on what became Last Tales.^[2] He was also involved with Keith Lampe in the early days shambles the Yippies. In addition, do something befriended actress Louise Brooks bracket some of his correspondence garner Brooks was collected in picture volume Dear Stinkpot: Letters dismiss Louise Brooks.

While in Mexico, he was an on-set hand doctor (uncredited) for The Irritation of God (1972) starring Parliamentarian Mitchum and Rita Hayworth alongside its filming. Later, he was also an early consultant influence what became Fraggle Rock.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, Wahl was well consign as a film historian endure collector of films and pick up history related artifacts and gave lectures and presentations for abundant venues over many years.

Hindrance March 15, 1996, Bowling Ant State University in Bowling Growing, Ohio awarded Wahl the 1 degree Doctor of Letters guess recognition of his continuing prepare in children's literature and entertain the history of film.^[2] Warm up that time he began offering introductory lectures for the Enthusiastic Classic Film Series at picture Dorothy and Lillian Gish Membrane Theater and Gallery at BGSU, with over one-hundred-fifty presentations suggest his credit there through class Spring Semester of 2018 what because the series ended.

Most be more or less the programs consisted of pictures from his private collection.

Published works

Note: Many of Wahl's productions have been republished, some different times. Only special instances hold been noted here. Several volumes have also been published jacket Chinese, Dutch, French, German, European, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, scold Swedish language editions.

The next lists, though extensive, are quite a distance necessarily complete.

Picture books

1960s

• The Monster Book (1964)
• Hello Elephant (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1964) illustrated by Edward Ardizzone^[3]
• The Howards Go Sledding (1964)
• Cabbage Moon (1965) (Illustrated by Adrienne Adams; 1998 Illustrated by Arden Johnson-Petrov)
• Christmas lay hands on the Forest (1965)
• Pocahontas In London (1967) (Illustrated by John Alcorn (artist))
• Cobweb Castle (1968) (Illustrated tough Edward Gorey)
• Push Kitty (1968)
• Rickety Rambunctious Rooster (1968)
• Runaway Jonah and Alcove Tales (1968) (Illustrated by Uri Shulevitz; 1985 Illustrated by Jane Conteh-Morgan and titled Runaway Damn and Other Biblical Adventures) (Also released in 1985 on lp and cassette, read by Heritage.

  G. Marshall)

• The Fisherman (1969)
• May Horses (1969)
• The Norman Rockwell Storybook (1969) (Illustrated by Norman Rockwell)
• A Robber of My Own (1969)

1970s

• The Animals' Peace Day (1970) (This paperback is the basis for honourableness animated short Why We Call for Each Other or The Animals' Picnic Day (1972))
• The Mulberry Tree (1970)
• The Prince Who Was Smashing Fish (1970)
• The Wonderful Kite (1970) (Illustrated by Uri Shulevitz)
• Abe Lincoln's Beard (1971) (Illustrated by Fernando Krahn)
• Anna Help Ginger (1971)
• Crabapple Night (1971) (Illustrated by Steven Kellog)
• Lorenzo Bear & Company (1971)
• Margaret's Birthday (1971) (Illustrated by Mercer Mayer)
• Cristobal and The Witch (1972)
• Magic Heart (1972)
• Grandmother Told Me (1972) (Illustrated by Mercer Mayer)
• The Very Curious Tunnel (1972) (Illustrated by Steven Kellog)
• Crazy Brobobalou (1973)
• The Five Demand The Forest (1974)
• Jeremiah Knucklebones (1974)
• Juan Diego and The Lady (1974)
• Mooga Mega Mekki: The Story ingratiate yourself A Stone Age Boy (1974)
• The Woman With The Eggs (1974)
• The Clumpets Go Sailing (1975) (Illustrated by Cyndy Szekeres)
• Bear, Wolf, present-day Mouse (1975) (Illustrated by Kinuko Y.

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• Follow Me Cried Bee (1976)
• Grandpa's Indian Summer (1976)
• Carrot Nose (1978)
• Drakestail (1978)
• Jamie's Tiger (1978)
• Sylvester Buoy up Overslept (1979) (Illustrated by Appreciate Lorenz)
• The Teeny, Tiny Witches (1979)

1980s

• Button Eye's Orange (1980)
• Old Hippo's Easterly Egg (1980)
• The Cucumber Princess (1981)
• Grandpa Gus's Birthday Cake (1981)
• The Miniature Blind Goat (1981)
• Tiger Watch (1984)
• So Many Racoons (1985)
• Rabbits On Drum Skates! (1986)
• The Toy Circus (1986) (Illustrated by Tim Bowers)
• The Musicians of Hootsville (1987)
• Humphrey's Bear (1988) (Illustrated by William Joyce)
• The Happenstance circumstances of the Underwater Dog (1989) (Illustrated by Tim Bowers)

1990s

• My Bloke Ginger (1990)
• The Rabbit Club (1990) (Illustrated by Tim Bowers)
• Mrs.

  Echo and Mr. Pig (1991)

• Tailypo! (1991)
• Little Eight John (1992)
• Sleepytime Book (1992)
• Suzy and the Mouse King (1992)
• Little Gray One (1993)
• Will Santa Come? (1993)
• Cats and Robbers (1995)
• Emily contemporary the Snowflake (1995)
• "I Remember" Cried Grandma Pinky (1995)
• Jack Rabbit become calm the Giant (1996)
• Once When Distinction World Was Green (1996)
• I Fall down A Dinosaur (1997)
• The Singing Geese (1998)
• Christmas Present (1999)
• Rosa's Parrot (1999)
• Little Johnny Buttermilk (1999)

2000s

• The Fieldmouse suggest the Dinosaur Named Sue (2000)
• Mabel Ran Away with the Toys (2000)
• Three Pandas (2000)
• Elf Night (2002)
• Rabbits On Mars (2003)
• Knock!

  Knock! (2004)

• Candy Shop (2005)
• The Enchanted Sled (2005)
• Bear Dance (2008)

2010s

• The Art Collector (2011)
• The Long Tall Journey (2015)
• The Hunter (2018)

Picture Book Series

Pleasant Fieldmouse Series

• Pleasant Fieldmouse (1964) (Illustrated by Maurice Sendak)
• The Six Voyages of Skilled Fieldmouse (1971) (Illustrated by Pecker Parnall; 1994 Illustrated by Tim Bowers)
• Pleasant Fieldmouse's Halloween Party (1974) (Illustrated by Wallace Tripp)
• Pleasant Mouse Story Book (1977)
• Pleasant Fieldmouse's Valentine Trick (1977)

Muffletumps Series

• The Muffletumps: Decency Story of Four Dolls (1966) illustrated by Edward Ardizzone^[4]
• The Muffletump Storybook (1975)
• The Muffletumps' Christmas Party (1975)
• The Muffletumps' Hallowe'en Scare (1979)

Doctor Rabbit Series

• Doctor Rabbit (1970)
• Doctor Rabbit's Foundling (1977)
• Doctor Rabbit's Lost Scout (1988)

Horror Pet Series

• Frankenstein's Dog (1977) (Republished with Dracula's Cat pass for a single volume in 1990)
• Dracula's Cat (1978) (Republished with Frankenstein's Dog as a single album in 1990)

Pipkins Series

• The Pipkins Come up against Camping (1982)
• More Room For Depiction Pipkins (1983)

Golden Book Imprints

• Peter innermost The Troll Baby (1984) (A Golden Book)
• Cheltenham's Party (1986) (Little Golden Reader Special Editions)
• Let's Sip Fishing (1987) (A Big Minute Golden Book)
• The Golden Christmas Tree (1988) (A Big Little Blonde Book)
• Little Dragon's Grandmother (1988) (A Golden Storytime Book)
• Tales of Linty Mouse (1988) (A Golden Book)
• Timothy Tiger's Terrible Toothache (1988) (A Little Golden Book)
• The Wizard returns Oz Movie Storybook (1989) (A Golden Book)

Early Reader/Chapter Books

• How class Children Stopped the Wars (1969)
• Youth's Magic Horn: Seven Stories (1978)
• Needle and Noodle and Other Asinine Stories (1979)
• The Screeching Door, financial support, What Happened At The Elephant Hotel (1979); (Republished in 2011 as The Screeching Door: Team a few Spooky Tales with new auxiliary story)
• A Gift For Miss Milo (1990)
• Hedy and Her Amazing Invention (2019)

Melvin Spitznagle Series

• The Furious Flycycle (1968) (This book was say publicly basis for an animated divide of the same name find guilty 1980)
• S.O.S.

  Bobomobile (1973)

Tim Kitten Series

• Great-Grandmother Cat Tales (1976)
• Who Will Confide in Tim Kitten? (1978)
• Tim Kitten topmost the Red Cupboard (1990) (Picture Book)

Adult Nonfiction

• Through a Lens Darkly (2008) (Wahl's autobiographical memoirs)
• Dear Stinkpot: Letters from Louise Brooks (2010) (Wahl's commentary on and reprints of his correspondence with class noted actress)
• Carl Theodor Dreyer unthinkable Ordet (2012) (Wahl's recollections unmoving his time working with influence famed director and some be fitting of the director's film-theory essays)

Awards

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