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Paula Fox

American book author (1923–2017)

  • Fame53.9
  • Momentum0.3
  • Wikipedia8.5K
Source-basedStable
Lived 1923–2017, aged 94United States
United States flagUnited StatesWritersWriter / Author
  • Wikipedia
    27 languages
    Cross-language footprint
  • Era
    1923–2017
    Aged 94
  • Known for
    Poor Georges
    2019
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Updated 2026-06-19

Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.

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53.9
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Momentum0.3
Historical21.5
Now attention1.6
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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