Maia Wojciechowska
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Maia Wojciechowska | |
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Born | Warsaw, Poland | August 7, 1927
Died | June 13, 2002 | (aged 74)
Spouses | Selden Rodman
(m. 1950; div. 1957)Richard Larkin
(m. 1970; div. 1981) |
Maia Teresa Wojciechowska (August 7, 1927 – June 13, 2002) was a
Life
Wojciechowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and was schooled in Poland, France, and England. After the 1939 invasion of Poland, the family fled to France, where she attended dozens of schools. They moved to California, USA, in 1942.[1]
Wojciechowska married Selden Rodman in 1950 and they had one daughter, Oriana. They divorced in 1957, as did she and her second husband Richard Larkin, who were married between 1970 and 1981. For some time in the 1980s–90s she lived in New Jersey with her adopted daughter Leonara.[1]
A resident of Mahwah, New Jersey,[2] Wojciechowska died of a stroke at age 74 in Long Branch, New Jersey.[3]
Awards
In 1965, her book
- Market Day for Ti Andre (1952), as Maia Rodman[1]
- ”Shadow of a Bull” (1964)
- Odyssey of Courage: The Story of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (New York: Atheneum Books, 1965)
- A Kingdom in a Horse (New York: Harper & Row, 1965)
- The Hollywood Kid (Harper & Row, 1966)
- A Single Light (Harper & Row, 1968)
- Tuned Out (Harper & Row, 1968); Laurel-Leaf edition, ISBN 0-440-99139-0
- Hey, What's Wrong with This One? (Harper & Row, 1969)
- Don't Play Dead Before You Have To: A Novel (Harper & Row, 1970)
- The Rotten Years (New York: Doubleday & Company), 1971
- The Life and Death of a Brave Bull (New York: ISBN 0-15-245200-1
- Till the Break of Day: Memories: 1939-1942 (HBJ, 1972)
- Through the Broken Mirror with Alice: Including parts of ISBN 0-15-286950-6
- Winter Tales from Poland (Doubleday, 1973), ISBN 0-385-02839-3
- The People in His Life: A Novel (New York: ISBN 0-8128-2717-1
- How God Got Christian into Trouble, (Philadelphia: ISBN 0-664-32717-6
- Dreams of Golf (Pebble Beach, CA: Pebble Beach Press, 1993), ISBN 1-883740-01-0
- Dreams of Soccer (Pebble Beach, 1993)
- Dreams of the Super Bowl (Pebble Beach, 1993)[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e
"Maia Wojciechowska Papers". de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. University of Southern Mississippi. Retrieved January 5, 2014.
- The Record (Bergen County), January 7, 1995. Accessed May 16, 2016.
- ^ "Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Author of Children's Books". The New York Times. June 21, 2002.
External links
- Maia Wojciechowska at Library of Congress, with 26 library catalog records – primarily listed under 'Wojciechowska, Maia, 1927-' without '2002'