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Jane Yolen

(Jane Hyatt Yolen Stemple)

(b.1939)
Mother of Adam Stemple

Jane Yolen is one of the acknowledged masters of fantasy today. She is the author of more than two hundred books for children and adults. Her young adult novel The Devil's Arithmetic won the Jewish Book Council Award. Her children's book Owl Moon, illustrated by John Schoenherr, was awarded the Caldecott Medal; her fantasy novels Sister Light, Sister Dark and White Jenna were both short-listed for the Nebula; and she's won the Nebula twice for short stories. She has also won the World Fantasy Award, the Christopher Medal twice, and the Golden Kite Award.

Jane Yolen lives with her husband in western Massachusetts and St. Andrews, Scotland.

Genres: Young Adult Fantasy, Children's Fiction, Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Science Fiction, General Fiction, Literary Fiction

New Books

February 2023

The Scarlet Circus

Series

Isabel the Witch
The Witch Who Wasn't (1964)
Isabel's Noel (1967)

Robot and Rebecca
The Mystery of the Code Carrying Kids (1980)
The Mystery of the Missing Owser (1981)

Commander Toad
   Commander Toad in Space (1980)
   Commander Toad and the Planet of the Grapes (1982)
   Commander Toad and the Big Black Hole (1983)
   Commander Toad and the Dis-Asteroid (1985)
   Commander Toad and the Intergalactic Spy (1986)
   Commander Toad and the Space Pirates (1987)
   Commander Toad and the Voyage Home (1998)

Pit Dragons
   1. Dragon's Blood (1982)
   2. Heart's Blood (1984)
   3. A Sending of Dragons (1987)
   4. Dragon's Heart (2009)

Books of the Great Alta
   1. Sister Light, Sister Dark (1988)
   2. White Jenna (1989)
   3. The One-Armed Queen (1998)

Here There Be...
   Here There Be Dragons (1993)
   Here There Be Unicorns (1994)
   Here There Be Witches (1995)
   Here There Be Angels (1996)

Young Merlin
   1. Passager (1996)
   2. Hobby (1996)
   3. Merlin (1997)

Tartan Magic
   1. The Wizard's Map (1999)
   2. The Pictish Child (1999)
   3. The Bagpiper's Ghost (2002)

Stuart Quartet (with Robert J Harris)
   1. Queen's Own Fool (2000)
   2. Girl in the Cage (2002)
   3. Prince Across the Water (2004)
   4. The Rogues (2007)

Young Heroes (with Robert J Harris)
   1. Odysseus in the Serpent Maze (2001)
   2. Hippolyta and the Curse of the Amazons (2002)
   3. Atalanta and the Arcadian Beast (2003)
   4. Jason and the Gorgon's Blood (2004)

Rock'n' Roll Fairy Tale (with Adam Stemple)
Pay the Piper (2005)
Troll Bridge (2006)

Foiled
1. Foiled (2010)
2. Curses! Foiled Again (2013)

Seelie Wars (with Adam Stemple)
   1. The Hostage Prince (2013)
   2. The Last Changeling (2014)
   3. The Seelie King's War (2016)

Stone Man Mysteries (with Adam Stemple)
   1. Stone Cold (2016)
   2. Sanctuary (2018)
   3. Breaking Out the Devil (2019)

Novels

   Trust a City Kid (1966) (with Anne Huston)
   The Inway Investigators (1969)
   The Transfigured Hart (1975)
   The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms (1978)
   The Boy Who Spoke Chimp (1981)
   The Gift of Sarah Barker (1981)
   Cards of Grief (1984)
   The Stone Silenus (1984)
   The Devil's Arithmetic (1988)
   The Dragon's Boy (1990)
   Wizard's Hall (1991)
   Briar Rose (1992)
   Children of the Wolf (1993)
   The Wild Hunt (1995)
   Armageddon Summer (1998) (with Bruce Coville)
   Boots and the Seven Leaguers (2000)
   Sword of the Rightful King (2003)
   Except the Queen (2010) (with Midori Snyder)
   The Last Dragon (2011) (with Rebecca Guay)
   Snow in Summer (2011)
   Curse of the Thirteenth Fey (2012)
   B.U.G. (Big Ugly Guy) (2013) (with Adam Stemple)
   Centaur Rising (2014)
   A Plague of Unicorns (2014)
   Trash Mountain (2015)
   Mapping the Bones (2018)
   Finding Baba Yaga (2018)
   The Last Tsar's Dragons (2019) (with Adam Stemple)
   Arch of Bone (2021)

Collections

   The Girl Who Cried Flowers (1974)
   The Hundredth Dove (1977)
   Dream Weaver (1979)
   Dragonfield (1985)
   Merlin's Booke (1986)
   Tales of Wonder (1987)
   The Faery Flag (1989)
   Storyteller (1992)
   Sister Emily's Lightship (1997)
   Twelve Impossible Things Before Breakfast (1997)
   Here There Be Ghosts (1998)
   The Fish Prince (2001) (with Shulamith Oppenheim)
   The Radiation Sonnets (poems) (2003)
   Barefoot Book of Stories from the Ballet (2004) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
   Fairy Tale Feasts (2006)
   The Barefoot Book of Ballet Stories (2009) (with Rebecca Guay and Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
   What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011) (with Jeanne DuPrau, Nikki Giovanni, John Green, Karen Hesse, Alexander McCall Smith, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates and Sofia Quintero)
   Things to Say to a Dead Man (poems) (2011)
   The Last Selchie Child (poems) (2012)
   Bad Girls (2013) (with Heidi E Y Stemple)
   Wee Rhymes (poems) (2013)
   The Bloody Tide (poems) (2014)
   Animal Stories (2014)
   The Emerald Circus (2017)
   Once There Was a Story (2017)
   Before The Vote After (poems) (2017)
   Meet Me at the Well (2018) (with Barbara Diamond Goldin)
   How to Fracture a Fairy Tale (2018)
   Jewish Fairy Tale Feasts (2020) (with Heidi E Y Stemple)
   The Midnight Circus (2020)
   The Last Robot (poems) (2021)
   Kaddish (poems) (2021)
   Grumbles from the Forest (poems) (2021) (with Rebecca Kai Dotlich)
   The Scarlet Circus (2023)

Chapbooks

The Adventures of Eeka Mouse (1974)
The Whitethorn Wood and Other Magicks (1984)

Picture Books

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Graphic Novels

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Chapter Books

   The Wizard of Washington Square (1969)
   Shirlick Holmes and the Case of the Wandering Wardrobe (1981)
   Sleeping Ugly (1981)

Series contributed to

MagicQuest
8. The Magic Three of Solatia (1974)

Oz Reimagined
11. Blown Away (2013)

Nebula Awards Showcase
19. Nebula Awards Showcase 2018 (2018)

Anthologies edited

   Zoo 2000 (1973)
   Shape Shifters (1978)
   Favorite Folktales from Around the World (1986)
   Spaceships and Spells (1987) (with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh)
   Things That Go Bump in the Night (1989) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   2041 (1991)
   Vampires (1991) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Xanadu (1993) (with Martin H Greenberg)
   Xanadu 2 (1994)
   Camelot (1995)
   The Haunted House (1995)
   Mother Earth / Father Sky (1995)
   Xanadu 3 (1995)
   Gray Heroes (1999)
   The Fairies' Ring (1999)
   Sherwood (2000)
   Mirror, Mirror (2000) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
   Not One Damsel in Distress (2000)
   Mightier Than the Sword (2003)
   The Year's Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens (2005) (with Patrick Nielsen Hayden)

Non fiction

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Anthologies containing stories by Jane Yolen

Short stories

	The Lady and the Merman [short story] (1976)
	The Tower Bird (1978)
	Angelica (1979)
	Cockfight (1980)
	The Sleep of Trees (1980)
	Brothers of the Wind [short story] (1981)
	In the Hall of Grief (1982)
	The Malaysian Mer (1982)
	Brother Kenan's Bell (1983)
	The Foxwife (1984)
	Evian Steel (1985)
	The Face in the Cloth (1985)
	The Confession of Brother Blaise (1986)
	Dream Reader (1986)
	"Once Upon a Time..." She Said (1987)
	Science Fiction (1987)
	Wolf/Child (1987)
	Words of Power (1987)
	The Boy Who Drew Unicorns (1988)
	The Devil's Arithmetic [short story] (1988)		Nebula Awards (nominee) World Fantasy (nominee)
	Memoirs of a Bottle Djinn (1988)
	The Quiet Monk (1988)
	Beauty and the Beast: An Anniversary (1989)
	The Faery Flag [short story] (1989)
	Mama Gone (1991)
	A Story Must Be Held (1991)
	The Question of the Grail (1992)
	The Tale of the Seventeenth Eunuch (1992)
	this is a story (1992)
	Will (1992)
	Inscription (1993)
	Knives (1993)
	The Ring at Yarrow (1993)
	Circles (1994)
	De Natura Unicorni (1994)
	Marchen (1994)
	Orkney Lament (1994)
	Pitch (1994)
	Allerleirauh (1995)
	Daffodils (1995) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
	Jacob and the Angel (1995)
	Journey into the Dark (1995)
	The Mirror Speaks (1995)
	The Question of the Sword (1995)
	Sister Death (1995)
	Swan/Princess (1995)
	The Traveler and the Tale (1995)
	Vamping the Muse (1995)
	Women's Stories (1995)
	Castle Collapse (1996)
	First Contact/Second Coming (1996)
	Flattened Fauna Poem #37: Cats (1996)
	The House of Seven Angels (1996)
	Intermarriage (1996)
	Sex Among the Abos (1996)
	Sextraterrestrials (1996) (with Joe Haldeman)
	Wonder Land (1996)
	Belle Bloody Merciless Dame (1997)
	Godmother Death (1997)
	Rabbit Hole (1997)
	Song of the Cards (1997)
	A Southern Night (1997)
	The Wizard of the Birds (1997) (with Adam Stemple)
	Become a Warrior (1998)
	Bird Count (1998)
	Carrion Crows (1998) (with Robert J Harris)
	Lost Girls (1998)		Nebula Awards
	Sister Emily's LightShip [short story] (1998)		Nebula Awards
	Studies in Stone (1998) (with Robert J Harris)
	Old Merlin Dancing On the Sands of Time (1999)
	Cinder Elephant (2000)
	Holy, Holy, Holy (2000) (with Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple)
	Our Lady of the Greenwood (2000)
	Snow in Summer [short story] (2000)

Awards

	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (1985) : Cards of Grief
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1986) : Dragonfield: And Other Stories
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1987) : Merlin's Booke
	World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1987) : Merlin's Booke
	Nebula Awards Best Novella nominee (1989) : The Devil's Arithmetic [short story]
	World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1989) : The Devil's Arithmetic [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1990) : Sister Light, Sister Dark
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book nominee (1991) : Sister Light, Sister Dark
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1991) : White Jenna
	Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature Best Book winner (1993) : Briar Rose
	Nebula Awards Best Novel nominee (1993) : Briar Rose
	World Fantasy Best Novel nominee (1993) : Briar Rose
	Nebula Awards Best Short Story winner (1998) : Sister Emily's LightShip [short story]
	Nebula Awards Best Novellette winner (1999) : Lost Girls

Jane Yolen recommends

The Gods of Pegana (1905)
Lord Dunsany
"Lord Dunsany is the great grandfather of us all."

A College of Magics (1994)
(College of Magics, book 1)
Caroline Stevermer
"A large step up ... from Harry Potter."

Song in the Silence (1996)
(Song in the Silence, book 1)
Elizabeth Kerner
"Elizabeth Kerner has a strong new voice that has the cadences and resonance of an old and wise bard."

The Fox Woman (2000)
(Fox Woman, book 1)
Kij Johnson
"If you are a smash-and-grab, blood-on-the-sword fantasy reader, this astonishingly lyrical first novel about a medieval Japanese shapeshifter is not for you. But if you want lush prose, romantic settings, and a poetry-of-the-soul book, run-do not walk-to get this. God, I wish I had written it!"

The Freedom Maze (2001)
Delia Sherman
"A bold and sensitively-written novel about a supposed-white child, Sophie Fairchild returned magically to a time of her ancestors who were slavemaster and slaves in the old South. I was mesmerized."

Spiral Path (2014)
(Night Calls , book 3)
Katharine Eliska Kimbriel
"With a clear, distinctive voice, Katharine Kimbriel invents and re-invents magic on America's frontier..."

The Oddling Prince (2018)
Nancy Springer
"In The Oddling Prince, Nancy Springer has written a small, perfect epic, three words I did not think could ever live well together. And yet here it is: romantic, heroic, moving, satisfying - and not an overblown farrago of words. Read it - and believe."

The Iron Dragon's Mother (2019)
(Iron Dragon's Daughter, book 3)
Michael Swanwick
"A perfect, perfect book."

Jillian vs. Parasite Planet (2021)
Nicole Kornher-Stace
"Look out Heinlein, here comes Nicole Kornher-Stace! In her middle grade novel, Jillian vs Parasite Planet, she not only does a Heinlein space explorer, but her young female hero, with hands full of science and parasites, manages to grow up as well. Huzzah! Great space fun with a lot of ick thrown in as well."

Bad Company (2022)
(Bad Company Books, book 1)
Adam Stemple
"I stayed up all night reading this breath-taking zombie/godfather epic, and I stay up all night for nobody and nothing. Not even for one of my kids!"

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