Authors and Illustrators Database

Born: 09/30/1929  Almond
Died: 02/16/2002
Parents: Andrew J. and Esther R. Fenner
Spouse: Jiles B. Williams--Major, USAF Ret.

Image	Title	Genre	Audience	Publisher	Date
	Snowed in with Grandmother Silk	Fiction	Children	New York: Dial Books	2003
	The King of Dragons	Fiction	Children	New York: McElderry Books	1998
	Yolanda's Genius - After moving from Chicago to Grand River, Michigan, fifth grader Yolonda, big and strong for her age, determines to prove that her younger brother is not a slow learner but a true musical genius. Newbery Honor Book	Fiction, Michigan	Children	New York: McElderry Books	1995
	Randall's Wall	Non Fiction	Children	New York: McElderry Books	1991
	A Summer of Horses - This story also included in Three in One Pony Stories by Red Fox Books.	Non Fiction	Children	New York: Knopf	1989
	Saving Amelia Earhart - Contained in The Third Coast: Contempory Michigan fiction	Short Stories	Adult	Detroit: Wayne State University Press	1982
	The Skates of Uncle Richard - Also on video by the Children's Television International in 1979	Fiction	Children	New York: Random House	1978
	Gorilla, Gorilla	Non Fiction	Children	New York: Random House	1973
	Lagalag - Self-illustrated	Fiction	Children	New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1968
	Christmas Tree on the Mountain - Self-illustrated	Fiction	Children	New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1966
	Tigers in the Cellar - Self-illustrated	Picture Book	Children	New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich	1963
	- Contributor of stories to magazines, Cricket and Kalamazoo Collective		Children

What is the aim or goal of your writing: It is quite selfish: to explore things that bother or excite me in order to clarify or identify or simply illuminate without solving these things. I am interested in fear and fantasy and how they serve us. I am concerned about the dreadful educational provisions for our very poor. I never know what will push me into another book (and when). 2nd ed, says, "I am self taught, both as a writer and illustrator. In other words, my formal education ended when I graduated from high school in 1948. For myself, I learn better and more deeply on my own. I am strongly self directed and would not recommend discontinuing formal education to anyone who isn't. I did have formal training both as an actress and a modern dancer. I have performed professionally on television and the stage."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

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Author
Illustrator
Cartoonist

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