![]() ![]() Writers must shut out everyone else while they write. "Being both a writer and editor affects different expressions of the same personality. She was also an editor and publisher at Harper & Row (a precursor to HarperCollins). Rabbit and the Lovely Present, dreamily illustrated by Maurice Sendak, which follows a little girl and a helpful rabbit as they hunt for the perfect birthday present for the girl's mother. ![]() She once wrote: "We are all the same, except that adults have found ways to buffer themselves against the full-blown intensity of a child's emotions." The New York Times' Margalit Fox said of Zolotow's books, "Delicately, with surgical precision, they plumbed children's interior lives, often ranging over loneliness, loss, longing and other painful topics that earlier generations of children's books had either sugarcoated or ignored outright." Zolotow is perhaps best known for her book Mr. Charlotte Zolotow, the author of more than 70 subtle and emotionally astute children's books, died Tuesday at age 98.The daily lowdown on books, publishing, and the occasional author behaving badly. ![]()
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