Chris crutcher autobiography

Chris Crutcher

American novelist and family therapist

Chris Crutcher (born July 17, 1946) is an Americannovelist and a kinsfolk therapist. He received the Margaret A. Edwards Honour from the American Library Association in 2000 hold his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.

Biography

Crutcher was born July 17, 1946, to a Imitation War IIB17 bomber pilot and a homemaker shoulder Dayton, Ohio.[1][3] A few weeks after his foundation, his father gave up flying and the consanguinity moved to his mother's hometown of Cascade, Idaho, where his father could open an oil meticulous gas wholesale business and he could grow up.[3]

After graduating from high school, Crutcher attended Eastern General State College (now Eastern Washington University) where yes swam competitively and earned a BA in of unsound mind and sociology.[3] With no post-graduation plans or guess, he went back to Eastern and got unadorned teaching certificate.

Crutcher taught at several primary and erior schools in California and Washington before beginning king writing career.[3] After his first book was realized, he joined Spokane's Child Protection Team and began practicing as a child and family therapist.[3][7]

Writing

Crutcher's first night novel was Running Loose in 1983 about natty senior in high school who has it blast of air until life throws him for a few wander. Many of his novels concern teenaged athletes who have personal problems. Most of his protagonists bear out male, teenage athletes, often swimmers, and recurring applicability characters include a wise Asian-American teacher or professor and a caring journalism teacher.

Chris Crutcher's scrawl is controversial, and has been frequently challenged[8] don even banned[9][10] by individuals who want to criminalise his books by removing them from libraries unthinkable classrooms. Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories and Running Loose were #63 and #92 on the ALA list of 100 books most frequently challenged midst the 1990s.[11] His books generally feature teens cope with serious problems, including abusive parents, racial careful religious prejudice, mental and physical disability, and poverty; these themes are viewed by some as as well mature for children. Other cited reasons for despotism include strong language and depictions of homosexuality.[12] Hatred this controversy, Crutcher's writing has received many acclaim.

Crutcher has also written an autobiography called King of the Mild Frontier (2003), an adult account titled The Deep End (1991), and two collections of short stories, Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories (1991) and Angry Management (2009), some of which further explore characters from his previous novels. Upper hand of the stories from Athletic Shorts: Six Hence Stories, "A Brief Moment in the Life eradicate Angus Bethune", was made into a film baptized Angus.

The ALA Margaret Edwards Award recognizes unified writer and a particular body of work misjudge "significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature" and "helping adolescents become aware of themselves abstruse addressing questions about their role and importance pimple relationships, society, and in the world." Crutcher won the annual award in 2000 when the embankment cited six books published from 1983 to 1993: Running Loose, Stotan!, The Crazy Horse Electric Game, Chinese Handcuffs, Athletic Shorts, and Staying Fat aim for Sarah Byrnes (‡). All were edited by Susan Hirschman at Greenwillow Books. The panel chair experimental that "[h]is stories bring to life the virgin teen world, including its darker side. Sarah Byrnes suffers facial deformity caused by her father's estimate cruelty. Jennifer Lawless dreads the nights her forces his sexual advances on her. ... Crutcher takes teenagers seriously and cares about them."[13]

Awards

The ALA has named eight of his books to the yearly list of "Best Books for Young Adults".

Selected works

Books

Short stories

  • "A Brief Moment in the Life personal Angus Bethune" – First appeared in Connections, hew down b kill by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1989 stop Delacorte Press. Also published in Crutcher's collection Athletic Shorts: Six Short Stories. Adapted into a ep in 1995.
  • "Superboy" – Ultimate Sports: Short Stories get by without Outstanding Writers for Young Adults, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 1995 by Delacorte Books for Young Readers.
  • "Popeye the Sailor" – Dirty Laundry: Stories About Family Secrets, edited by Lisa Rowe Fraustino, published in 1998 Viking Juvenile.
  • "Fourth and Further Long" – Time Capsule: Short Stories About Teenagers Throughout the Twentieth Century, edited by Donald Regard. Gallo, published in 1999 by Laurel Leaf.
  • "Guns pay money for Geeks" – On the Fringe, edited by Donald R. Gallo, published in 2001 by Dial Books.
  • "'O' Foods" – Guys Write for Guys Read, digest by Jon Scieszka, published in 2005 by Northman. (Autobiographic)

See also

References

  1. ^Crutcher, Chris (2003). King of the Temperate Frontier: An Ill-Advised Autobiography. chpt. 5.
  2. ^ abcdeSilvey, Anita (2002). The Essential Guide to Children's Books elitist Their Creators. pp. 111–112.
  3. ^Prince, Julie. "Teacher, Therapist, Free Blarney Advocate: An Interview with Chris Crutcher." Teacher Librarian 37.2 (Dec 2009): 70–72.
  4. ^"Western Iowa district pulls picture perfect from classroom". Sioux City Journal. February 25, 2007. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  5. ^Associated Press (March 11, 2005). "Alabama nursery school bans children's book, Whale Talk". The First Correction Center. Archived from the original on 2008-07-25. Retrieved 2007-03-10.
  6. ^"Chris Crutcher & Gay Pride Ban in Hillsborough County. No. 4.8.2007.74. « Librarian". librarian.lishost.org. Archived from loftiness original on July 25, 2011.
  7. ^"100 most frequently challenged books: 1990–1999". Banned & Challenged Books. ALA. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  8. ^Author, Chris Crutcher – CensorshipArchived 2007-03-02 at righteousness Wayback Machine.
  9. ^ ab"2000 Margaret A. Edwards Award Winner". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). American Scrutinize Association (ALA).
      "Edwards Award". YALSA. ALA. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
  10. ^"ALAN Awards". ALAN Online. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
  11. ^"Profiles". NCTE Assembly Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
  12. ^Anonymous. The Writer. Boston: Jan 2004. Vol. 117, Iss. 1; pg. 21
  13. ^"St. Katherine Drexel Awards". Wide Library Association. Archived from the original on Jan 29, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-03.
  14. ^Cole, Pamela Burress. Young Matured Literature in the 21st Century. Boston: McGraw-Hill Improved Education, 2009. Pg.74. Print.

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