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(1926-2010) Author. Betty Jean Lifton was born in Staten Island, New York, and died in Boston, Massachusetts.

Full Name

Betty Jean Lifton

Locations

Richmond

Author's Timeline


1926

BIRTH

Betty Jean Lifton was born Blanche Rosenblatt in Staten Island on June 11, 1926.

1948

OTHER

Ms. Lifton received a bachelor's degree in English from Barnard College in Manhatten, New York, in 1948.

1965

LITWORK

Joji and the Amanojaku
W. W. Norton & Co.
ASIN: B0010LTKW2.
Children's book.

1970

LITWORK

Return to Hiroshima
Atheneum.
ISBN-10: 0689205252. ISBN-13: 978-0689205255.
Nonfiction; with photography by the Japanese photographer, Eikoh Hosoe.

1972

LITWORK

The Children of Vietnam
Atheneum.

Nonfiction; written with Thomas C. Fox.

1975

LITWORK

Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter
McGraw Hill.
ISBN-10: 007037824X. ISBN-13: 978-0070378247.
Nonfiction.

1979

LITWORK

Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience
Dial Press.
ISBN-10: 0803750366. ISBN-13: 978-0803750364.
Nonfiction.

1981

LITWORK

I'm Still Me
Knopf Books for Young Readers.
ISBN-10: 0394847830. ISBN-13: 978-0394847832.
Novel for young adults.

1988

LITWORK

The King of Children
Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
ISBN-10: 0374181241. ISBN-13: 978-0374181246.
Nonfiction; a biography of Janusz Korczak.

1994

LITWORK

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness
Basic Books.
ISBN-10: 0465008119. ISBN-13: 978-0465008117.
Nonfiction.

1994

LITWORK

Tell Me a Real Adoption Story
Knopf Books for Young Readers.

ISBN-10: 0679806296. ISBN-13: 978-0679806295.
Children's book; illustrated by Claire A. Nivola.

1997

LITWORK

A Place Called Hiroshima
Kodansha America.

ISBN-10: 0870116495. ISBN-13: 978-0870116490.
Nonfiction; with photography by the Japanese photographer, Eikoh Hosoe.

2010

DEATH

Betty Jean Lifton died in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 19, 2010.

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