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American writer

Adrien Stoutenburg (December 1, – April 14, ) was an American poet and a prolific writer of juvenile literature.^[1] Her poetry collection Heroes, Advise Us was the Lamont Poetry Selection.

Life

Stoutenburg was born in Darfur, Minnesota.

Following her father's death in , she was raised by her paternal grandmother in Hanley Falls, Minnesota. She finished high school in Minneapolis, and attended the Minneapolis School of Art from to ^[2]

She then worked as a librarian and in other capacities near Richfield, Minnesota.^[3] In , she published her first book of children's fiction, The Model Airplane Mystery.

Stoutenburg later wrote, "After publishing in many magazines, I seriously settled down to writing books in ^[2] She had published four books of children's fiction by , when she moved to California to become an editor at Parnassus Press, a publisher of children's literature. She held the position at Parnassus Press until Over her career, Stoutenburg published about forty books of juvenile fiction and non-fiction.

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Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker, with whom Stoutenburg lived, in Lagunitas, California.^{[4][5][6][2][7]} Stoutenburg also published under the pseudonyms Barbie Arden, Lace Kendall, and Nelson Minier (the latter jointly with Baker, e.g.

The Lady in the jungle).^[1][8] At least five of Stoutenburg's books were Junior Literary Guild selections.^[2] Only one of her works, American Tall Tales, is currently in print; upon its publication in , the New York Times included it on a listing of recommended volumes for children, summarizing it as "Eight tales, tough, sentimental, and bold, about American's folk heroes ".^[9]

Stoutenburg's first volume of poetry, Heroes, Advise Us, was the Lamont Poetry Selection of the Academy of American Poets; each year, this award honored and supported one poet's first published book.

Her second collection, A Short History of the Fur Trade, won a California Book Award (silver) for ,^[10] and was a close competitor for the Pulitzer Prize.^[7] Her third collection, Greenwich Mean Time, was published in James Dickey has written of her poetry, "If I were to characterize the tone of voice, I would call it that of sensitive outrage, quivering, powerful, and delicate.

Delicate: therefore powerful"^[11]

Stoutenburg died of cancer in in Santa Barbara, California.^[1] At Stoutenburg's request, David R. Slavitt subsequently edited and published a selection of her poetry. The volume, Land of Superior Mirages, includes a number of poems that had been unpublished at her death.^[7] In his review, Robert von Hallberg wrote, "Adrien Stoutenburg's poems deserve much more attention than they have received."^[12] Some of Stoutenburg's papers, and also those of Laura Nelson Baker, are archived at the University of Minnesota Children's Literature Research Collection.^[13][14] Papers relating to Stoutenburg's career as a poet are housed at The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley.^[15]

Stoutenburg's poems were selected for nine volumes of the annual Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards,^[3] and have been included in several more recent anthologies.^{[3][16][17][18]} One common selection is her poem "Cicada", originally published in in The New Yorker.^[19]

Works

Cicada (excerpt) I lay with my heart under me, under the white sun, face down to fields and a life that gleamed under my palms like an emerald hinge. I sheltered him where we lay alive under the body of the sun. Trees there dropped their shadows like black fruit, and the thin-necked sparrows came crying through the light. —&#;Adrien Stoutenburg

Poetry collections

• "The Things That Are".
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  Reilly & Lee, (Chicago). (Illustrated by Robert Lostutter)

• Heroes, Advise Us. Scribner (New York, NY).
• A Short History of the Fur Trade. Houghton (Boston, MA).
• Greenwich Mean Time.
  Adrien stoutenburg biography of martin lawrence The Pristine York Times. Several of the works were co-authored with Laura Nelson Baker , with whom Stoutenburg lived, in Lagunitas, California. Delicate: therefore powerful ISBN

  University of Utah Press (Salt Lake City, UT). ISBN&#;

• Land of Superior Mirages: New and Selected Poems. David R. Slavitt, editor; James Dickey, introduction. Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD). ISBN&#;

Young-adult fiction

• The Silver Trap
• Honeymoon
• Four on the Road
• Good Bye, Cinderella (Westminster)^[20]
• Walk Into the Wind
• Out There ("The first major novel of ecological nightmare", from the cover)^[21]

Children's fiction and poetry

• The Model Airplane Mystery (Doubleday Doran)
• Timber Line Treasure (Westminster)
• Stranger on the Bay (Westminster)
• River Duel (Westminster)
• In This Corner (Westminster)^[22]
• Snowshoe Thompson (with Laura Baker Nelson; illustrated by Victor De Pauw) (Scribner)
• The Blue-Eyed Convertible (Westminster)
• Little Smoke.

  New York: Coward McCann. OCLC&#; (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Sam Savitt)

• Window on the Sea (Westminster)
• The Secret Lions. New York: Coward McCann. OCLC&#; (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Douglas Howland)
• A Time For Dreaming (Westminster)
• The Mud Ponies: Based on a Pawnee Indian Myth (Lace Kendall, pseud.; illustrated by Eugene Fern) (Coward-McCann, New York)
• The Things That Are (poetry; illustrated by Robert Lostutter)
• Rain Boat (Lace Kendall, pseud.; John Kaufmann, illustrator; Coward-McCann).^[23] Stoutenburg called it "One of my favorite books".^[2]
• American Tall Tales (Richard M.

  Powers, illustrator) (Puffin, ; ISBN&#;).

• The Crocodile's Mouth: Folk-song Stories (Glen Rounds, illustrator) (Viking)
• American Tall-Tale Animals (Glen Rounds, illustrator; Viking)^[24]
• Fee, Fi, Fo, Fum: Friendly and Funny Giants (Rocco Negri, illustrator) (Viking, ; ISBN&#;)
• Haran's Journey (Laszlo Kubinyi, illustrator; Dial)^[25]
• A Cat Is (poetry; photographs by Sy Katzoff) (Franklin Watts, New York; ISBN&#;)
• The Giant Who Sucked His Thumb (illustrated by Shyam Varma) (Deutsch, London)
• Where To Now, Blue? (Four Winds Press; ISBN&#;)

Non-fiction

• Wild Animals of the Far West (Ruth Robbins, illustrator; Parnassus Press)^[26]
• Wild Treasure, The Story of David Douglas (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• Scannon: Dog with Lewis and Clark (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• Houdini: Master of Escape.

  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC&#; (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• Beloved Botanist: The Story of Carl Linnaeus (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• The Lady in the Jungle: The Story of Mary Kingsley in Africa. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC&#; (under the pseudonym Nelson Minier)
• Dear, Dear Livy: The Story of Mark Twain's Wife (with Laura Nelson Baker)
• Elisha Kent Kane: Arctic Challenger.

  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC&#; (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• Explorer of the Unconscious: Sigmund Freud
• Masters of Magic. Macrae Smith Co. OCLC&#; (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)
• A Vanishing Thunder: Extinct and Threatened American Birds
• Animals at Bay: Rare and Rescued American Wildlife
• Tigers, Trainers, & Dancing Whales: Wild Animals of the Circus, Zoo, and Screen.
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  Macrae Smith Co. OCLC&#; (under the pseudonym Lace Kendall)

• Listen, America: A Life of Walt Whitman (with Laura Nelson Baker; Scribner's)^[27]
• People in Twilight: Vanishing and Changing Cultures. Garden City, New York: Doubleday. OCLC&#;

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