2018 – Page 6 – Janet Ruth Heller

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Janet Ruth Heller and 7 Other Michigan Authors for Children Will Autograph at the Detroit Festival of Books on Sunday, July 15, 2018

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:June 22, 2018
Post category:Autographing Book Fairs Books Chapter Book Children's Literature Children's Programs Fiction Literature Picture Book Society of Children's Book Writers & Illustrators

On Sunday, July 15, 2018 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Janet Ruth Heller and seven other Michigan authors and illustrators will be autographing their children’s books at the Detroit Festival of Books in the Eastern Market, Shed 6, Table 1 at 2934 Russell Street, Detroit, Michigan 48207. The other writers and artists there are Lisa Rose, Josef Bastian, Gin Price, Jean Alicia Elster, Patrick Flores-Scott, Jeff Jantz, and Jodi McKay. All of us are members of the Michigan chapter of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators. Janet Ruth Heller will be autographing The Passover Surprise (Fictive Press, 2015, 2016), a middle-grade chapter book about sibling rivalry, and her award-winning fiction picture book about bullying How the Moon Regained Her Shape (Arbordale, 2006; 4th edition 2014). Please join us! For more information, please see the Detroit Festival of Books website http://detroitbookfest.com/

Biographies that Change People’s Outlook on Life

Post author:Janet Ruth Heller
Post published:May 26, 2018
Post category:Autobiography Biography Books Interviews Nonfiction Young Adult Literature

Janet Ruth Heller is quoted in the article "9 Biographies That Will Change Your Outlook on Life" by Nathaniel Fried. The link is https://fupping.com/natty/2018/05/25/8-biographies-that-will-change-your-outlook-on-life/ Here is my paragraph in this article. When I was a teenager, I read the book Teenagers Who Made History, written by Russell Freedman and illustrated by Arthur Shilstone (New York: Holiday House, 1961). It has biographies of various young people who achieved something important as teenagers, including the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, who won fourth place for her poem "Renascence" in a poetry contest and publication in The Lyric Year in 1912. Many readers praised this poem, and Millay received a scholarship to Vassar College. I wanted to be a writer, and this book encouraged me to pursue my dream.

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I love books by British writers P. D. James, Seamus Heaney, S. T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Judy Blume, Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Jim Daniels, Mong-Lan, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Naomi Shihab Nye, Alberto Ríos, Gail B. Griffin, Jerry Spinelli, Jane Yolen, Kathryn Erskine, Gary D. Schmidt, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks, Marge Piercy, Grace Paley, Alicia Ostriker, Jaimy Gordon; South African writer Athol Fugard;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon; and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico García Lorca, Ruben Darío, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and Dámaso Alonso.

I also love Japanese haiku, especially those by Matsuo Bashō.

My writing has been influenced by many other authors, including British writers Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, George Eliot, W. B. Yeats;

American writers Edna St. Vincent Millay, T. S. Eliot, Maxine Kumin, Adrienne Rich, Judith Minty, Gwendolyn Brooks;

Israeli writers Chaim Nachman Bialik, Yehudah Amichai, Rachel Bluwstein, Chaim Guri, S. Y. Agnon, and Hispanic writers Sor Juana, Federico Garcia Lorca, Ruben Dario, Antonio Machado, Jorge Guillen, Pedro Salinas, and Damaso Alonso.