![]() ![]() The family travelled internationally during her childhood, and her parents encouraged Horn and her siblings to write journals about their trips. ![]() Her mother, Susan, was an English teacher with a Ph.D in Jewish studies. She attended Millburn High School and was co-captain of the Quiz Bowl team. Horn was born in 1977 and grew up in Short Hills, New Jersey with three siblings. She won the Edward Lewis Wallant Award in 2002, the National Jewish Book Award in 20, and the Harold U. ![]() She has written five novels and in 2021, released a nonfiction essay collection titled People Love Dead Jews, which was a finalist for the 2021 Kirkus Prize in nonfiction. Dara Horn (born 1977) is a Jewish American novelist, essayist, and professor of literature. ![]()
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![]() Mattimeo continued the saga, following Matthias’s son as he is kidnapped by the slaver fox Slagar the Cruel (another excellent baddie Jacques does villainous animals very well).īorn in 1939, Jacques’ books were informed by the second world war, and his memories of rationing. ![]() ![]() (“Cluny was a God of War! Cluny was coming nearer!”) Heroism and sacrifice, comedy and evil – all of life is contained in Jacques’ anthropomorphic world.Īfter Redwall, Jacques told the story of how Redwall Abbey came to be, in the sequel Mossflower, as Martin the Warrior (another mouse, of course) arrives to save the creatures of the forest from the grip of the wildcats (Tsarmina Greeneyes is a particularly wonderful villain). The first novel, 1986’s Redwall, was my introduction to fantasy: Matthias, a young orphan mouse, seeks a lost sword to see off an evil rat army led by Cluny the Scourge. Jacques’ bestselling stories of talking mice, squirrels and otters (the goodies) and rats, foxes and wildcats (the baddies) gave me so much happiness as a child. I f, like me, you are a fan of Brian Jacques, then the news that Netflix is working on an adaptation of Redwall will have you setting the abbey bells a-ringing in joy. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But as Sport's mother's share of the inheritance will double if she stays home from her European jaunts to raise him, she proceeds to kidnap her unwilling son, locking him up first in his grandfather's home and later in the Plaza Hotel, from which Sport escapes in a food cart propelled by his friend Chi-Chi who's a bellhop there. This takes place before Sport turns twelve (presumably then still in the Sixties, though there's an anachronistic reference to the hustle), during the weeks that Sport starts in at a new junior high school, his father marries a super, sympathetic lady named Kate, and his mother's father dies, leaving most of his immense fortune to Sport. You'll remember Harriet the Spy's friend Sport Rocque as the eleven-year-old who keeps house and account books for his impractical writer father. ![]() |