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| Born | May 13, 1954 New York City, United States |
| Occupation | Author |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Genre | Young adult, children's non-fiction |
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Susan Beth Macy (born May 13, 1954) is an American author. She writes young adult nonfiction, focusing mainly on women's history and sports. Her 2019 book, The Book Rescuer, won the American Library's Association's 2020 Sydney Taylor Book Award.
Early life and education
Macy was born in New York City in 1954 and raised in Clifton, New Jersey. Macy is Jewish. Her father, Morris Macy, was a certified public accountant and her mother, Ruth Macy (née Narotsky), taught high school business classes until becoming a homemaker. In her youth, Macy's career interests leaned toward law, but after she won a scholarship in 1971 through her local newspaper to Northwestern University’s summer high school journalism institute her interests began to broaden to writing and journalism. The Northwestern University Journalism Institute enabled Macy to serve as a summer intern to the North Jersey Herald News for the next three years. [1] [2]
Macy attended Clifton High School and Princeton University. [3]
Career
Macy's book, Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way), was published by the National Geographic Society and explores the impact of the bicycle on women's liberation in the 1890s. [4] It was a finalist for the Young Adult Library Services Association's YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults in 2012. [5] Maria Popova wrote on Brain Pickings that Wheels of Change is "a remarkable National Geographic tome that tells the riveting story of how the two-wheel wonder pedaled forward the emancipation of women in late-nineteenth-century America and radically redefined the normative conventions of femininity." [6]
Macy's 2019 picture book, The Book Rescuer, is the story of Yiddish Book Center's founder Aaron Lansky. [7] The Book Rescuer was a Parents' Choice Award winner [8] and has received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, [9] Kirkus Reviews, [10] and The New York Times. [11] The Book Rescuer was announced as the winner of the 2020 Sydney Taylor Book Award in the Picture Book category at the American Library Association’s Youth Media Awards on January 27, 2020. [12] [13]
In February 2020, the National Geographic Society released Macy's exploration of female athletes in the 1920s, entitled Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties. [14]
Books
- A Whole New Ball Game: The Story of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (Henry Holt and Company, 1993)
- Winning Ways: A Photohistory of American Women in Sports (Henry Holt and Company, 1996)
- Play Like a Girl: A Celebration of Women In Sports (Henry Holt and Company, 1999) — edited with Jane Gottesman
- Girls Got Game: Sports Stories and Poems (Henry Holt and Company, 2001)
- Bull's Eye: A Photobiography of Annie Oakley (National Geographic Society, 2001)
- Swifter, Higher, Stronger: A Photographic History of the Summer Olympics (National Geographic Society, 2004)
- Freeze Frame: A Photographic History of the Winter Olympics (National Geographic Society, 2006)
- Bylines: A Photobiography of Nellie Bly (National Geographic Society, 2009) [3]
- Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom (With a Few Flat Tires Along the Way) (National Geographic Society, 2011)
- Basketball Belles: How Two Teams and One Scrappy Player Put Women’s Hoops on the Map (Holiday House, 2011) — illustrated by Matt Collins
- Roller Derby Rivals (Holiday House, 2011) — illustrated by Matt Collins
- Sally Ride: Life on a Mission (Aladdin/Simon & Schuster, 2014)
- Miss Mary Reporting: The True Story of Sportswriter Mary Garber (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2016) — illustrated by C.F. Payne
- Trudy's Big Swim: How Gertrude Ederle Swam the English Channel and Took the World By Storm (Holiday House, 2017) — illustrated by Matt Collins
- Motor Girls: How Women Took the Wheel and Drove Boldly Into the Twentieth Century (National Geographic Society, 2017)
- The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come (Paula Wiseman Books/Simon & Schuster, 2019) — illustrated by Stacy Innerst
- Breaking Through: How Female Athletes Shattered Stereotypes in the Roaring Twenties (National Geographic Society, released in February 2020)
References
- ^ Something About the Author series, Vol 134, pp.65–66
- ^ Hile, Kevin, ed. (1997). Something about the author. Volume 88. Detroit, Mich.: Gale. pp. 65–66. ISBN 978-0-8103-9945-7. OCLC 705262563.
- ^ a b Daidone, Angela (October 23, 2009). "Bringing women's stories to life". Clifton Journal. pp. A38. Retrieved May 15, 2020.
- ^ Bland, Alastair. "Books on Bike Perfection and Women's Bike-Won Freedom". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ "2012 Nonfiction Award Nominations". Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA). January 30, 2012. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ Popova, Maria (December 16, 2011). "The 11 Best History Books of 2011". Brain Pickings. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ Massachusetts Jewish Ledger: "A Conversation with Sue Macy"
- ^ Parent's Choice Gold Award Winner, The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come [1]
- ^ "Children's Book Review: The Book Rescuer: How a Mensch from Massachusetts Saved Yiddish Literature for Generations to Come". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ "The Book Rescuer". Kirkus. June 30, 2019. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ Ingall, Marjorie (December 5, 2019). "The Stories Behind American Heroes, Made Accessible to Kids". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
- ^ 2020 Sydney Taylor Book Award Winners Announced
- ^ School Library Journal: "Sydney Taylor Blog Tour: THE BOOK RESCUER Creators Sue Macy and Stacy Innerst" [2]
- ^ Media, Jacqueline Cutler (February 7, 2020). "A prison of long skirts: How the pioneers of women's sports bucked society to compete in the Jazz Age". NJ.com. Retrieved May 24, 2020.
External links
- Official website
- Voice of America Interview: Author Sue Macy Discusses History of US Women Athletes|
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- 21st-century American women writers
- People from Clifton, New Jersey
- Writers from Englewood, New Jersey
- 20th-century American historians
- Clifton High School (New Jersey) alumni
- Princeton University alumni
- 1954 births
- Living people
- American writers of young adult literature
- Writers from New York City
- Sports historians
- Women's historians
- American women historians
- 21st-century American historians
- Historians from New Jersey
- 20th-century American women writers
- Jewish American historians
- Historians from New York (state)
- 21st-century American Jews