{"id":2978,"date":"2015-04-17T19:50:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=2978"},"modified":"2015-04-17T19:50:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T00:50:06","slug":"zolotow-charlotte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/zolotow-charlotte\/","title":{"rendered":"Zolotow, Charlotte"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2979 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ph_czol2.jpg\" alt=\"Charlotte Zolotow\" width=\"140\" height=\"178\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2980 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_wmdol.jpg\" alt=\"William's Doll\" width=\"100\" height=\"130\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2981 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_whobn.jpg\" alt=\"Who Is Ben?\" width=\"100\" height=\"123\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2982 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/bk_seash.jpg\" alt=\"Seashore Book\" width=\"97\" height=\"131\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Charlotte Zolotow was born on June 26, 1915, in Norfolk, North Virginia. She was the well-known editor and author who worked at Harper Junior Books for over 30 years.<\/p>\n<p>Zolotow wrote such books as <i>The Park Book<\/i> (illus. by H.A. Rey), <i>William&#8217;s Doll<\/i> (illus. by William Pene du Bois), and <i>Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present<\/i> (illus by Maurice Sendak). She became editorial director of her own imprint, Charlotte Zolotow Books, in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>From 1933 to 1936, she studied children&#8217;s literature with Dr. Helen C. White at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. In 1998, the Charlotte Zolotow Award was established by the Cooperative Center for Children&#8217;s Books at that University, which is housed in a building named for Dr. White.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Zolotow was the recipient of the Harper Gold Medal Award for Editorial Excellence, the University of Minnesota&#8217;s 1968 Irwin Kerlan Award, the University of Southern Mississippi&#8217;s 1990 Silver Medallion, and a 1991 American Library Association resolution expressing gratitude for her contributions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Zolotow died November 19, 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Vicki Palmquist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Charlotte Zolotow was born on June 26, 1915, in Norfolk, North Virginia. She was the well-known editor and author who worked at Harper Junior Books for over 30 years. Zolotow wrote such books as The Park Book (illus. by H.A. Rey), William&#8217;s Doll (illus. by William Pene du Bois), and Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely &#8230; <a title=\"Zolotow, Charlotte\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/zolotow-charlotte\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zolotow, Charlotte\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1054],"tags":[542,723,432,408,2096,569,2097,2094,2095,2098],"class_list":["post-2978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-z","tag-author","tag-charlotte-zolotow","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-literature","tag-cooperative-center-for-childrens-books","tag-editor","tag-harper-gold-medal-award","tag-harper-junior-books","tag-helen-c-white","tag-irwin-kerlan-award"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p51Nzs-M2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}