Robert Michael Lipsyte is an American sports ;journalist and author. He was bom on January 16, 1938 in New York. Lipsyte’s father was a school head teacher, his mother a teacher. Instead of sharing ;a game of catch with his father, the two often visited ;the library and read books. One of Lipsyte’s children, Sam Lipsyte, is also an author and teacher at Columbia University in New York.
In the first chapter of his book Sports World Lipsyte points out that he did not even attend his first :Major League Baseball game until he was thirteen i years old. Lipsyte says he was very disappointed with his experience at the game and went to only one
more game “as a paying customer.” His third Major League Baseball game was as a sports reporter for The New York Times.
As a boy, Lipsyte did play sports, but he felt acute pressure to do better than others at sports which discouraged his interest. This experience later developed into a major theme in some of Lipsyte,s non-fiction works such as SportsWorld and novels like Jock and Jill and One Fat Summer. The main character of One Fat Summer, Bobby Marks, is an adolescent in the 1950s. He is overweight and does something about it. In 1952,Lipsyte took a summer job as a lawn (草坪)boy and lost forty pounds, ridding himself of the youthful reputation for being fat.
In 1978,Robert Lipsyte was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. His experience with the illness led to. another novel for young adults, The Che mo Kid. Fred Bauer, the main character, is an ordinary high scho.ol junior and discovers he has cancer. Amazingly, Fred acquires superpowers, apparently due to the treatments, and becomes “The Chemo :Kid,” fighting for the environment and against drug ;dealers.
Lipsyte was given a position in the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame (名人堂)in 1993. The Margaret A. Edwards Award is-an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes an author and “a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” Lipsyte won the award in 2001, citing :(表彰)four books published from 1967 to 1993. According to the citation, “Lipsyte’s books focus on the search for self-definition by young adults.”
Robert Michael Lipsyte is an American sports ;journalist and author. He was bom on January 16, 1938 in New York. Lipsyte’s father was a school head teacher, his mother a teacher. Instead of sharing ;a game of catch with his father, the two often visited ;the library and read books. One of Lipsyte’s children, Sam Lipsyte, is also an author and teacher at Columbia University in New York.
In the first chapter of his book Sports World Lipsyte points out that he did not even attend his first :Major League Baseball game until he was thirteen i years old. Lipsyte says he was very disappointed with his experience at the game and went to only one
more game “as a paying customer.” His third Major League Baseball game was as a sports reporter for The New York Times.
As a boy, Lipsyte did play sports, but he felt acute pressure to do better than others at sports which discouraged his interest. This experience later developed into a major theme in some of Lipsyte,s non-fiction works such as SportsWorld and novels like Jock and Jill and One Fat Summer. The main character of One Fat Summer, Bobby Marks, is an adolescent in the 1950s. He is overweight and does something about it. In 1952,Lipsyte took a summer job as a lawn (草坪)boy and lost forty pounds, ridding himself of the youthful reputation for being fat.
In 1978,Robert Lipsyte was diagnosed (诊断) with cancer. His experience with the illness led to. another novel for young adults, The Che mo Kid. Fred Bauer, the main character, is an ordinary high scho.ol junior and discovers he has cancer. Amazingly, Fred acquires superpowers, apparently due to the treatments, and becomes “The Chemo :Kid,” fighting for the environment and against drug ;dealers.
Lipsyte was given a position in the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame (名人堂)in 1993. The Margaret A. Edwards Award is-an American Library Association literary award that annually recognizes an author and “a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” Lipsyte won the award in 2001, citing :(表彰)four books published from 1967 to 1993. According to the citation, “Lipsyte’s books focus on the search for self-definition by young adults.”
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