Sheila Greenwald Explained

Sheila Greenwald
Birth Name:Sheila Ellen Greenwald
Birth Date:26 May 1934
Birth Place:New York, New York, U.S.
Alma Mater:Sarah Lawrence College
Occupation:Writer, illustrator
Period:1956–present
Genre:Children's books
Notableworks:Rosie Cole series
Children:2

Sheila Greenwald (born May 26, 1934) is an American writer and illustrator of books for children and young adults. She is known best for Rosy Cole’s Great American Guilt Club (1985) and other Rosy Cole books, and has won awards including the Parents' Choice Award, and the Santa Monica Library's Green Prize for sustainable literature.

Personal life

Greenwald was born (May 26, 1934) in New York City[1] to parents, Julius and Florence (née Friedman) Greenwald and grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan.[2] She graduated from the High School of Music & Art as an art major and from Sarah Lawrence College as a literature major.[3] [4] Greenwald is married to George E. Green, a cardiac surgeon, and has two children, Ben and Sam.[5]

Career

Greenwald is a writer and illustrator of children's picture books, books for young readers, young adult books, and magazine articles.[6] She has written and illustrated 30 books of her own which received positive reviews,[7] as well as illustrating for magazines. She began her career as an illustrator in 1956 and her writing career in 1962 with, A Metropolitan Love Story.[8] In 1971, with the encouragement of her editor, she began writing books that she had once only illustrated. In an article written by Greenwald for Publishers Weekly in 2018, she wrote, "The Rosy Cole books", edited by Melanie Kroupa, "not only gave me the opportunity to create humor and character by juxtaposing text with illustrations, but allowed me to vent opinions on competition, sexual precocity, materialism, conformity to peer pressure, and more".[9]

Greenwald has created illustrations for over seventy books for both adults and children written by others, among them the classic, The Pink Motel, by Carol Ryrie Brink. In the July, 1966 issue of Harper's Magazine she wrote, My Life Story,[10] as well as illustrating additional articles, which were not her own. All of her published work has been written and illustrated by Greenwald with the exception of two, Bossy Flossie, books which were illustrated by Pierre Collet-Derby.[11]

Her work for children, both text and illustration has been donated to the De Grummond Children’s Literature Collection at the McCain Library and Archives at The University of Southern Mississippi.[9] Greenwald wrote, A Day With the Knights: A Real Imaginary Adventure, for the Metropolitan Museum of Art[12] and has contributed to Cricket Magazine, The New York Times, Gourmet Magazine, and The Reporter Magazine.

Books

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Awards

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Sheila Green . Macmillan . January 18, 2022.
  2. Web site: Green, Sheila Ellen 1934- (Sheila Greenwald) . Encyclopedia. January 18, 2022.
  3. Web site: Biz Whiz #1 Sheila Greenwald, About the Author . Barns and Nobel . January 24, 2022.
  4. "Citizenship Encampment Group Visits College Nursery School"," The Herald Statesman, page 6, July 20, 1961
  5. ""Surgeon Takes Shortcut to Relieve Heart Surgery"", "Daily News , page B-50, May 30, 1982
  6. Web site: Who's Who Lifetime Achievement - Sheila Greenwald . Who's Who . March 27, 2018 . January 25, 2022.
  7. Web site: Rosy Cole's Worst Ever Best Yet Tour of New York by Sheila Green. Kirkus Reviews . January 24, 2022.
  8. Web site: A Metropolitan Love Story by Sheila Greenwald. Biblio . January 25, 2022.
  9. Web site: Looking Back, Looking Forward: 60-Plus Years Illustrating and Writing Books for Children. Publishers Weekly. March 6, 2018 . January 27, 2022.
  10. Web site: My Life Story. Harper's Magazine . July 1, 1966 . January 25, 2022.
  11. Web site: The Secret to Success #2 Bossy Flossie. Amazon . January 25, 2022.
  12. Web site: Publications o the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1964 - 2005: A Bibliography, page 88. Metropolitan Museum of Art . January 25, 2022.
  13. Web site: Author Sheila Greenwald List of Books Books. Publishers Weekly . January 18, 2022.
  14. Web site: List of Books Written by Sheila Greenwald . Goodreads . January 18, 2022.

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