Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
Phyllis Reynolds Naylor in her writing chair, where she writes the first two drafts of every book by hand
Born	January 4, 1933 (1933-01-04) Anderson, Indiana, United States
Occupation	Novelist
Nationality	American
Period	1965-present
Genres	children's literature, young adult literature
Spouse(s)	Rex Naylor
Children	Jeffery, Michael

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor (born January 4, 1933) is an American author best known for her children and young adult fiction books. Naylor is best known for her children's-novel trilogy Shiloh (a 1992 Newbery Medal winner), Shiloh Season and Saving Shiloh, all made into movies. She is also known for her "Alice" book series; The Grand Escape, the short story collection The Galloping Goat and Other Stories; The Witch Saga; and a series of books, starting with The Boys Start the War, about boys and girls pulling pranks on each other.

Biography

Naylor was born in Poptar, Indiana. She grew up during the Great Depression with her older sister Norma, and younger brother, John. Her parents read stories to her when she was young, and her favorite book as a child was Huckleberry Finn. She began writing her own stories when she was in elementary school. Naylor graduated from Joliet Township High School in 1951 and from Joliet Junior College in 1953. When she was 16 years old, a Sunday school teacher asked her to write a story for the church magazine. She wrote a baseball story named "Mike's Hero" and was paid $4.67 for it. Her first marriage took place when she was 18 years old. After Naylor graduated, she and her then husband moved to Chicago. She worked as a clinical secretary in a university hospital during that time. Later, she worked as an elementary school teacher and eventually got a job as an editorial assistant for a magazine.

In 1960, Naylor married Rex Naylor. She decided to attend American University, graduating in 1963 with a BA degree. Naylor planned to work towards a master's degree in clinical psychology but decided to become a full-time author. Her first children's book was called The Galloping Goat and Other Stories and was published in 1965. Naylor now has four grandchildren: Sophia, Tressa, Garrett and Beckett. So far, she has written over 130 books, and about 2000 articles. Naylor says that she will write "as long as she can hold a pencil".

Awards

• Newbery Medal
• Edgar Allen Poe Mystery Writers Award
• Child Study Award
• Kerlan Award
• Christopher Award
• Society of School Librarians International Award
• Hedda Seisler Mason Award
• Appalachian Medallion
• About 25 State Awards
• Various ALA Notables

Bibliography

• How I Came to Be a Writer
• Crazy Love: An Autobiographical Account of Marriage and Madness
• The Keeper
• Night Cry
• Collections
  • Grasshoppers in the Soup (1965)
  • The Galloping Goat and Other Stories (1965)
  • Knee Deep in Ice Cream (1967)
  • Dark Side of the Moon (1969)
  • The Private I, and Other Stories (1969)
  • Ships in the Night (1970)
  • Never Born a Hero (1982)
  • A Triangle Has Four Sides (1984)

• What the Gulls Were Singing

• Alice series
  • The Agony of Alice (1985)
  • Alice in Rapture, Sort of (1989)
  • Reluctantly Alice (1991)
  • All but Alice (1992)
  • Alice in April (1993)
  • Alice in-Between (1994)
  • Alice the Brave (1995)
  • Alice in Lace (1996)
  • Outrageously Alice (1997)
  • Achingly Alice (1998)
  • Alice on the Outside (1999)
  • The Grooming of Alice (2000)
  • Alice Alone (2001)
  • Simply Alice (2002)
  • Starting With Alice (2002) (prequel)
  • Alice in Blunderland (2003) (prequel)
  • Patiently Alice (2003)
  • Including Alice (2004)
  • Lovingly Alice (2004) (prequel)
  • Alice on Her Way (2005)
  • Alice in the Know (2006)
  • Dangerously Alice (2007)
  • Almost Alice (2008)
  • Intensely Alice (2009)
  • Alice in Charge (2010)
  • Incredibly Alice (2011)

• Shiloh series
  • Shiloh (1991)
  • Shiloh Season (1996)
  • Saving Shiloh (1997)

• KittyCat Pack series
  • The Grand Escape by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (1993)
  • The Healing of Texas Jake by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (1997)
  • Carlotta's Kittens by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (2000)
  • Polo's Mother by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor and Alan Daniel (2005)

• The Boys Start the War series
  • The Boys Start the War (1992)
  • The Girls Get Even (1993)
  • Boys Against Girls (1994)
  • The Girls' Revenge (1998)
  • A Traitor Among the Boys (1999)
  • A Spy Among the Girls (2000)
  • The Boys Return (2001)
  • The Girls Take Over (2002)
  • Boys in Control (2003)
  • Girls Rule! (2004)
  • Boys Rock! (2005)
  • Who Won the War? (2006)

• Being Danny's Dog
• Danny's Desert Rats (1998)
• Ice (1995)
• Sang Spell
• Beetles, Lightly Toasted
• Walker's Crossing (1987)
• Eddie, Incorporated (1980)

• The Witch Saga series
  • Witch's Sister (1975)
  • Witch Water (1977)
  • The Witch Herself (1978)
  • The Witch's Eye (1990)
  • Witch Weed (1991)
  • The Witch Returns (1992)
  • the fear place
• The Galloping Goat
• Jade Green: A Ghost Story (1999)
• The Year of the Gopher
• The Fear Place

• Besseldorf Mysteries
  • The Mad Gasser of Bessledorf Street (1983)
  • The Bodies in the Bessledorf Hotel (1986)
  • Bernie Magruder & the Haunted Hotel (1990)
  • Bernie and the Bessledorf Ghost (1993)
  • Bernie Magruder & the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor (1993)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Bus Station Blow-Up (1996)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Parachute Peril (1999)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Pirate's Treasure (1999)
  • Bernie Magruder and the Case of the Big Stink (2001)
  • Bernie Magruder & the Bats in the Belfry (2003)

• York Trilogy
  • Shadows on the Wall (1980)
  • Faces in the Water (1981)
  • Footprints at the Window (1981)

• Picture books
  • Meet Murdock (1969)
  • How Lazy Can You Get? (1979)
  • All Because I'm Older (1981)
  • The Boy with the Helium Head (1982)
  • Old Sadie and the Christmas Bear (1984)
  • The Baby, the Bed, and the Rose (1987)
  • Keeping a Christmas Secret (1989)
  • King of the Playground (1991)
  • Ducks Disappearing (1996)
  • I Can't Take You Anywhere! (1997)
  • Sweet Strawberries (1999)
  • Roxie and the Hooligans (2006)
  • Cuckoo Feathers (2006)
• Faith, Hope, and Ivy June

External links

• Official website for the Alice novel series