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.
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.
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