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The Devil's Arithmetic is the author's first book that deals explicitly with Jewish themes. [2] While writing the novel, Yolen spent a week at an Indianapolis private school; when she explained to students about her forthcoming work, one student asked if Yolen had made up the events of the novel, based on the real story of the Holocaust. [2]
The Devil's Arithmetic is a 1999 TV movie based on the historical novel of the same name by Jane Yolen. It stars Kirsten Dunst as Hannah Stern and costars Brittany Murphy, Louise Fletcher, and Mimi Rogers. Dustin Hoffman introduces the film but is uncredited and serves as an executive producer with Mimi Rogers. [1]
Jane Hyatt Yolen was born on February 11, 1939, at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.She is the first child of Isabell Berlin Yolen, a psychiatric social worker who became a full-time mother and homemaker upon Yolen's birth, and Will Hyatt Yolen, a journalist who wrote columns at the time for New York newspapers, [5] and whose family emigrated from Ukraine to the United States. [1]
The Devil's Arithmetic (1988), Nebula Award finalist; basis of the 1999 film of the same name) The Dragon's Boy (1990) Wizard's Hall (1991) The Wild Hunt (1995) Briar Rose (1992, Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature, Nebula Award finalist)
Because SparkNotes provides study guides for literature that include chapter summaries, many teachers see the website as a cheating tool. [7] These teachers argue that students can use SparkNotes as a replacement for actually completing reading assignments with the original material, [8] [9] [10] or to cheat during tests using cell phones with Internet access.
Robert J. Avrech is an American screenwriter whose works include the 1984 film Body Double (with Brian De Palma) [1] and A Stranger Among Us (). [2] He won an Emmy Award for his screenplay The Devil's Arithmetic, based on the young adult novel by Jane Yolen.
Jane Yolen: The Pit Dragon Trilogy, Briar Rose, The Devil's Arithmetic; Honobu Yonezawa: Hyōka; David Yoo: Girls for Breakfast, Stop Me if You've Heard This One Before; Nicola Yoon: Everything, Everything, The Sun Is Also a Star
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