The award-winning children's novelist Paula Fox, known for frankly exploring abandonment and loss, has died in New York. She was 93. Fox died at a hospital near her Brooklyn home, her daughter, Linda Carroll-Barraud told The New York Times.
She was awarded the Newbery Medal, the top children's literature honour, in 1974 for "The Slave Dancer." The controversial novel centered on the Atlantic slave trade in the mid-19th century.
Fox was awarded the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 for her body of children's work.
She is survived by her husband, two children and several grandchildren, including the rock star-actress Courtney Love, 52.
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