Contemporary settings and characters, situations and problems, in both fiction and nonfiction, lay claim to me. Such issues as a teenager’s struggle with weight held special appeal for Perl, as she noted in an interview for Contemporary Authors: “I feel that the times in which we are living are too complex, too challenging to be ignored, particularly by the writer of young people’s literature. Ig editor-in-chief Robert Lasner notes that the title had just gone to the printer when he heard the news of Perl’s death. The first title, Me and Fat Glenda, originally published by Seabury Press in 1972, is scheduled to be reissued next month by Ig Publishing under its Lizzie Skurnick imprint. She was a voracious reader as a child, but, as she wrote in her own words in the biography used by several of her publishers, “.it never occurred to me that I would one day become a writer.” It wasn’t until her two children (with husband Charles Yerkow) were in elementary school that Perl decided to follow her own curiosities and embark on a writing career.Īmong her best known novels are a quartet of books about Fat Glenda. Perl was born in Brooklyn and attended Brooklyn College, where she earned her B.A., and pursued additional studies at both Columbia University and New York University. Children’s author Lila Perl, who earned warm praise and several awards in a career that produced more than 60 works of both fiction and nonfiction, has died.
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