Jack and Hazel

by Roger Sutton
Apr 30, 2015 | Filed in Articles & Opinion
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WHY I have to go to Chicago to see Jack Gantos when he lives only a mile away from my office is a question I'll happily ignore to hear his Zena Sutherland Lecture at the Chicago Public Library tomorrow night. Join us if you can; otherwise you can read Jack's speech in the Horn Book this fall. I'm also looking forward to brunch with Hazel Rochman, or, as Milton Meltzer once referred to her, "that damned Hazel Rochman," the lady having incurred his ire for insisting, in a far-reaching and lastingly influential Booklist editorial, that nonfiction writers for the young cite their sources. Now it's hard to imagine that they didn't!
Roger Sutton
Roger Sutton

Editor Emeritus Roger Sutton was editor in chief of The Horn Book, Inc., from 1996-2021. He was previously editor of The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books and a children's and young adult librarian. He received his MA in library science from the University of Chicago in 1982 and a BA from Pitzer College in 1978.

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