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About Norton Juster

Birth

1929

Death

2021

First book

1961

Years writing

65

Biography

Norton Juster was an American academic, architect, and writer. He was best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth (1961) and The Dot and the Line (1963).

Norton Juster was a multifaceted American author who balanced his career as an architect with writing children's literature.

His most iconic work, The Phantom Tollbooth, is an internationally recognized classic of juvenile fiction.

Juster demonstrated his versatility by collaborating on the libretto for an opera based on his own novel.

His book The Dot and the Line was adapted into an animated short film that won an Academy Award.

Beyond his creative work, he served as a professor emeritus of design at Hampshire College during his academic career.

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