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    Jane Yolen (Foiled, Curses! Foiled Again) is the author of over 300 books, including Owl Moon, The Devil’s Arithmetic, and How do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight? Her books and stories have won an assortment of awards—including two Nebulas, a World Fantasy Award, a Caldecott Honor, the Golden Kite Award, two Christopher Medals, and a nomination for the National Book Award.

    This interview first appeared on Wired.com’s The Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast, which is hosted by John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley. Visit geeksguideshow.com to listen to the entire interview and the rest of the show, in which the hosts discuss various geeky topics.

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    One of your new projects is a pair of graphic novels called Foiled and Curses! Foiled Again. How did those first come about?

    Years and years ago, I was a college fencer, and I had a fencing foil that, after I graduated from college, I had with me; you know, I took with me to my apartment in New Yor

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    Jane Yolen bibliography

    List of works by or about fantasy writer Jane Yolen:[1][2][3]

    Novels

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    • The Wizard of Washington Square (1969)
    • The Inway Investigators, or, The Mystery at McCracken's Place (1970)
    • The Magic Three of Solatia (1974)
    • The Transfigured Hart (1975)
    • The Mermaid's Three Wisdoms (1978)
    • The Gift of Sarah Barker (1981)
    • The River Maid (1981)
    • Children of the Wolf (1984)
    • The Stone Silenus (1984)
    • Cards of Grief (1985, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature)
    • The Devil's Arithmetic (1988), Nebula Award finalist; grund of the 1999 bio of the same name)
    • The Dragon's Boy (1990)
    • Wizard's Hall (1991)
    • The Wild Hunt (1995)
    • Briar Rose (1992, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Nebula Award finalist)
    • Armageddon Summer (1998, with Bruce Coville, ALA Best Book for Young Adults, ALA Quick Pick for Reluctant ung Adult Readers)
    • Sword of the Rightful King (2003, ALA Best Books 2

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      This month’s PB author interview is by a writer who has a special relationship with OPB—she helped get it going. I’d been mulling over creating this website for a few years and when I shared the idea with my friend and mentor, Jane Yolen, she told me: “Silly boy. Why aren’t you already doing this?”

      So, of course, I did exactly that. And she was eager to volunteer to be one of my first interviewees. The only reason she wasn’t the first one published here? I had many hours of recordings to work through and I’m a slow transcriber. Plus—what to leave out? What to include? It wasn’t easy.

      I was lucky enough to be able to bring Jane out to Ringling College of Art and Design in January 2018 for a couple of days of events to support the creative writing program there. So the following interview has been pieced together from just a small bit of the mountain of writing and publishing information she shared in classes, student meetings, lunchtime talks, and public evening

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