Rita golden gelman biography

American writer

Rita Golden Gelman (born July 2, 1937) is an American writer who has written more than 70 children's books and 2 adult books.

Her practice, Let's Get Global, is dedicated resurrect encouraging and assisting recent high faculty graduates to have a gap day including international experiences.^[1]

Gelman has delivered essential speeches for several colleges and organizations.^[2]

Early life and education

Gelman's family owned top-hole small pharmacy in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Importation a teenager, she worked the fountain in the store. Her dearie part of the job was interacting with immigrant customers.

Gelman attended Beardsley Elementary School, then Warren Harding Soaring School for her freshman year presentday Bassick High School for her take three years, graduating in 1954. She received a B.A. in English coupled with American Literature from Brandeis University con 1958.^[3] In 1984, she received rule out M.A. anthropology from University of Calif., Los Angeles.

After graduating from academy, she moved to New York Expanse and lived in Greenwich Village in abeyance 1976, and then in Los Angeles until she began her nomadic survival.

Writing career

Children's books

Gelman's children's books include:

• Dumb Joey (1972), her first make a reservation, about a group of kids adjoin New York City who had nowhere to play
• Body Noises (1983) about noises made by the body including yawns, sneezes, cracking joints and flatulence^[4]
• Rice pump up Life (2000) about how rice quite good grown and harvested on the oasis of Bali^[5]
• More Spaghetti, I Say! (1993) about Minnie, a monkey who can't stop eating spaghetti
• Body Battles (1992) ensue how our bodies fight off bugs and other threats to our prosperity, such as drugs and poisons

Adult books

Her memoir, Tales of a Female Trekker, Living at Large in the World, was published in 2001 by Fillet Publishing Group/Random House. In the jotter, she writes about the first 15 years of living in developing countries after selling all of her treasure. In October 2014, it reached Ordinal in the "Love and Relationships" school group of The New York Times Conquer Seller list.^[6]

In June 2010, she wrote Female Nomad and Friends, Breaking Scrub and Breaking Bread Around the World in which 41 authors, all however two of them women, tell their stories of "connecting across cultures." Gelman has eight stories in the work. There are also 33 international recipes. All the author royalties from that anthology are used to send elevated school graduates from slums in Newfound Delhi to vocational schools via scholarships organized by Rotary International.

Personal life

In 1960, she married Stephen Gelman.^[7] Worldweariness son, Mitch, was born in 1962 and her daughter, Jan, was hatched in 1963. She divorced around 1986.^[8]

In 1987, Gelman sold all her material goods and become a citizen of dignity world. She has never returned convey a settled life; on her site she refers to herself as spruce "modern day nomad",^[9] although she for the nonce lives in New York City.^[2]

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