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Jan Slepian (born January 2, 1921 in New York City), born Janice Berek is an author of books for children and young adults. She obtained a degree in psychology at Brooklyn College, later doing graduate work in clinical psychology and speech pathology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She worked as a speech therapist at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and then embarked on a writing career.〔(Penguin profile of Jan Slepian )〕〔Herbert N. Foerstel, ''Banned in the U.S.A.: A Reference Guide to Book Censorship in Schools and Public Libraries'', Greenwood Publishing Group, July 2002, p. 171〕〔(Bookrags profile )〕 With co-author Ann Seidler, she published several illustrated books in a series called the "The Listen-Hear Books". Titles included ''The Hungry Thing'', ''The Hungry Thing Returns'' and ''The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant'': all three are for young readers and teach about phonemic awareness; they also co-authored ''The Cat Who Wore a Pot on Her Head'', ''Alfie and the Dream Machine'' and several other titles. Some of her books deal with mental disability, including ''The Alfred Summer'' (1980) ''Lester's Turn'' (1981) (both of which feature the voice of a child afflicted by cerebral palsy)〔(NYT review of ''Lester's Turn'' )〕 and ''Risk n' Roses'' (1990). Books for adolescent readers include ''The Night of the Bozos'' (1983), ''The Broccoli Tapes'' (1989), ''Pinocchio's Sister'' (1995), ''Mind Reader'' (1997) and ''Emily Just in Time'' (1998). Her husband was the noted mathematician David Slepian. Her 2009 book, ''Astonishment: Life in the slow lane'' (ISBN 0-557-04914-8), self-published when she was 88, is a collection of twenty brief essays on aging and life in a retirement community. In 2010, Laura Ekstrand, artistic director of Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater in South Orange, adapted the work into a stage production which was subsequently performed at various venues in New Jersey. In 2012, Slepian published a follow-up to ''Astonishment'' called ''How to Be Old''. == Books == *''Something Beyond Paradise'' (1987) *''The Broccoli Tapes'' (1989) *''The Hungry Thing Returns'' (1993) *''The Hungry Thing Goes to a Restaurant'' (1993) *''Emily Just in Time'' (1987) *''The Hungry Thing'' (2001) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jan Slepian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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