![]() ![]() ![]() She started as a secretary, but moved into an editorial career, working with Ursula Nordstrom. She attended the University of Wisconsin at Madison, and shortly afterward returned to New York, where in 1938 she began working at HarperCollins, then Harper & Brothers. They were certain that children were capable of understanding the best work gifted artists and writers could give them.Ĭharlotte Zolotow was born in 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia, but grew up in several cities, including Detroit, New York, and Boston. ![]() The two shared a passionate belief: that children's books should be honest and faithful to the sometimes difficult but always intensely felt experiences of childhood. Her editorial career began under the brilliant Ursula Nordstrom, publisher of Harper Children's Books. ![]() In addition, she has been a distinguished editor and publisher (she is now a HarperCollins Publisher Emerita), and by extension, an innovative educator. Rabbit and the Lovely Present,illustrated by Maurice Sendak, and the groundbreaking William's Doll, illustrated by William P�ne du Bois. She is a prolific, much-honored author with over seventy titles published, including the classic Mr. Charlotte Zolotow is a revered name in children's literature. ![]()
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