photo courtesy of Gregory Maguire

We are sad to hear from Gregory Maguire that English novelist, critic, and great, great friend to the Horn Book John Rowe Townsend passed away Monday night at the age of 91. Winner of the 1970 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award for The Intruder, John published books and many articles with us and, with his wife Jill Paton Walsh, was instrumental in the early years of Simmons College’s Center for the Study of Children’s Literature, and, later, the founding of Children’s Literature New England. He will be missed.

At the link, John and Jill remember Paul and Ethel.

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