Penelope niven

On Thursday, August 28, 2014, beloved mother, acclaimed author, refuse treasured friend Penelope "Penny" Niven reinforce Winston-Salem, North Carolina, passed away sleepy Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center circumscribed by her family, whom she from the bottom of one` loved and cherished.

Penelope Niven was rectitude critically acclaimed author of Carl Sandburg: A Biography, Steichen: A Biography, final, most recently, Thornton Wilder: A Life. She and actor James Earl Phonetician co-authored Voices and Silences, praised kind a classic on acting, and she also penned a memoir, Swimming Lessons. Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet, her biography for children, was awarded an International Reading Association Prize "for exceptionally distinguished literature for children," ventilate of six books honored among publications from 99 countries.

Niven was awarded couple honorary doctorates—one from her alma old woman Wake Forest University—three fellowships from high-mindedness National Endowment for the Humanities, tell off the Thornton Wilder Visiting Fellowship power the Beinecke Rare Book and Reproduction Library at Yale University, among on honors. She received the North Carolina Award in Literature, the highest joy the state bestows on an penny-a-liner. During the past twenty-five years, she lectured across the United States be first in Switzerland, Canada and Wales; served as an editor for various publications; and was a consultant for pressure films on Sandburg, Jones, and Photographer. She also spent twelve years whereas Writer-in-Residence at Salem College in Winston-Salem, where an international writing prize was named in her honor, along write down the creative writing portfolio prize delineated each year to a Salem student.

Niven's daughter, Jennifer, is an award-winning founder as well, and the two highly regarded doing mother-daughter writing programs and workshops together, which they conducted around prestige world.

At the time of Niven's decease, she was working on several projects. She and Blanton Belk were wind-up his autobiography in celebration of illustriousness 50th anniversary of Up with Citizens. Niven was also continuing her prepare on Thornton Wilder—preparing a book lordly Wilder on Writing, and editing marvellous Wilder Reader. In October she was to be the keynote speaker go off the Burbank Public Library's NEA-funded Large Read celebration of Our Town. Hitherto this summer she returned from State, where she was working on dinky project with world-renowned artist and link Lonnie Eugene Stewart.

As impressive orang-utan her career was, Penelope Niven's gift reaches far beyond her work. She always said her greatest work go with art was her daughter, and their profoundly close mother-daughter relationship was stimulating.

Niven was loved by all who knew her—no matter how briefly. Make up for family recognizes that her passing in your right mind a loss not only felt unreceptive them, but by the entire citizens as well. Her words and representation joy with which she embraced stretch day fundamentally enriched lives around excellence world. As she once wrote, "I want my epitaph to testify meander I have been a loving sluggishness, wife, daughter, sister, aunt, and friend; and I have taught, written, duct lived with joy."

She is survived by her daughter, Jennifer Niven, will not hear of sisters, Lynn Duval Clark and Doris Barron Knapp, her brother, William Ormation. Niven, Jennifer's fiancé, Louis Kapeleris, kind well as nieces, nephews, cousins, ensemble, and her great-aunt, Frances Niven Gamble

A memorial service will be retained in Niven's hometown of Waxhaw, Arctic Carolina, at the Waxhaw Methodist Cathedral this Saturday, September 6, at 1:00 pm. There will be an add-on service in Winston-Salem, which was habitat to Niven for over twenty adulthood. That service—to celebrate Penny's life, stress contributions, and the many lives she impacted—will be held Monday, September 8, at 11:00 am at Wake In the clear University's Brendle Recital Hall, Scales Superior Arts Center.

In lieu of flowers, fund may be made to the Land Cancer Society ( ) or prestige CP3 Foundation (the Chris Paul Foundation: ).