Hey, What's Wrong with This One? by Maia Wojciechowska

Ernest Hemingway acclaimed her as an expert on bullfighting she managed to get training with fighting bulls and killed one in the ring in Mexico. The book's authenticity came from the author's own experience. Wojciechowska wrote 19 books, the best-known of which is Shadow of a Bull (1964), about a young boy in Spain who finds his identity after his father, a bullfighter, dies in the ring. The cause was a stroke, said her daughter Oriana Rodman. Maia Wojciechowska, an award-winning author of children's books, died on June 13 in Long Branch, N.J. Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Author of Children's Books June 21, 2002.įrom the New York Times on June 21, 2002: 'Maia Wojciechowska, 74, Author of Children's Books'. 'One Life – Maia Wojiechowska of Mahwah, Author', The Record (Bergen County), January 7, 1995. de Grummond Children's Literature Collection. Dreams of the Super Bowl (Pebble Beach, 1993).Dreams of Golf (Pebble Beach, CA: Pebble Beach Press, 1993), ISBN 1-88.How God Got Christian into Trouble, (Philadelphia: Westminster Press), 1984, ISBN 7-6.The People in His Life: A Novel (New York: Stein and Day, 1980), ISBN 0-8128-2717-1.Winter Tales from Poland (Doubleday, 1973), ISBN 9-3.Through the Broken Mirror with Alice: Including parts of Through the Looking-Glass (HBJ, 1972), ISBN 0-15-286950-6.The Life and Death of a Brave Bull (New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1972), ISBN 0-15-245200-1.The Rotten Years (New York: Doubleday & Company), 1971.Don't Play Dead Before You Have To: A Novel (Harper & Row, 1970).Hey, What's Wrong with This One? (Harper & Row, 1969).Tuned Out (Harper & Row, 1968) Laurel-Leaf edition, ISBN 9-0.A Kingdom in a Horse (New York: Harper & Row, 1965).Odyssey of Courage: The Story of Alvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (New York: Atheneum Books, 1965).Market Day for Ti Andre (1952), as Maia Rodman.Its German-language edition won the Deutscher Jugendbuchpreis for youth books in 1968. It features a Spanish boy destined to be a bullfighter. In 1965, her book Shadow of a Bull (1964) won the Newbery Medal recognizing the year's best contribution to American children's literature. For some time in the 1980s–90s she lived in New Jersey with adopted daughter Leonara.Ī resident of Mahwah, New Jersey, Wojciechowska died of a stroke at age 74. They divorced in 1957, as did she and her second husband Richard Larkin, 1970–81. Wojciechowska married Selden Rodman in 1950 and they had one daughter, Oriana. After the 1939 invasion of Poland, the family fled to France where she attended dozens of schools. Wojciechowska was born in Warsaw, Poland, and schooled in Poland, France, and England. Her first book and two books for adults were published under her married name Maia Rodman.

Maia Wojciechowska (Aug– June 13, 2002) was a Polish-American writer best known for children's and young adult fiction.

Hey, What's Wrong with This One? by Maia Wojciechowska