Erica Stux

Background

Erica Stux was born on November 25, 1929, in Cologne, Germany. She was the second daughter of Max, a doctor, and Trudy, a homemaker and seamstress, Houser. During the war, the family made their way from Germany to England, then to Ohio, eventually settling in Cincinnati.

Education

Erica Stux attended the University of Cincinnati. There she received a Bachelor of Science in 1949 and a Master of Science in 1950.

Career

After education, Erica Stux worked as a chemist in Cincinnati in 1950-1956. From 1978 to 1984, she served as a technical writer at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. Then, in 1988-1992 Stux held the position of an instructor in technical writing at the University of Akron. Erica Stux also was active in philanthropic and arts-supporting groups in Akron, and, since 1999, in the San Fernando Valley.

Besides, Erica Stux was a writer. Among the many works she has authored during her writing life have been several poems and stories for children, as well as several book-length biographies. Her interest in the arts, as well as her feminist beliefs, have inspired several of books, such as Eight Who Made a Difference: Pioneer Women in the Arts and Writing for Freedom: A Story about Lydia Maria Child, the latter Stux's 2000 biography of the courageous nineteenth-century American abolitionist.

Erica Stux's work, Eight Who Made a Difference, includes short biographies of eight women who excelled in their chosen field and gained fame during the twentieth century because of their talents rather than their gender. It included the accomplishments of Native-American ballet dancer Maria Tallchief, vocalists Marian Anderson and Beverly Sills, American photojournalist Margaret Bourke-White, artists Mary Cassatt and Louise Nevelson, architect Julia Morgan, and French pianist Nadia Boulanger.

Besides, Erica Stux was a contributor of poems and articles to Grit, Columbus Dispatch, Philadelphia Inquirer, Saturday Evening Post, Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest, Canto, Maryland Review of Poetry, Lutheran Digest, Scroll, Haiku, Outdoor, Summit, Chicago Daily News, and Gentle Survivalist. She also was a contributor of children's poems and stories to periodicals, including Climb, Explore, Wee Wisdom, Hopscotch, Adventures in Storytelling, Real Kids, Story Friends, Words of Cheer, Purring in a Pocket, Ohio Woodlands, and Young Crusader and to publications used by the Southern Baptist Sunday School.

Achievements

• Erica Stux is well known as a writer. She was the author of poetry, non-fiction, and a children's series of biographies. For her work, Stux received an Akron Area Manuscript Club Award.

Works

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  • Enrico Fermi

    (Examines the life of the Nobel Prize-winning Italian phys...)

    2004
  • Eight Who Made a Difference

    (Profiles eight notable women in the arts, including sculp...)

    1999
  • Naturally Inspired

    (Erica Stux has had a long love affair with what inhabits ...)

    2012
  • Expressions of Nature

    (Sit back, relax, and enjoy an escape into nature with thi...)

    2010
  • Reflections On Abraham Lincoln

    (Two long epic poems dominate this poetry collection: the ...)

    2009
  • Working Where Poems are Lurking

    (This book of verse contains maybe 70 poems that are humor...)

    2017
  • Aiming for the Jocular Vein

    (Essays and light verses dealing with humorous aspects of ...)

    2013
  • They Found Order in Nature

    (The book describes the lives of scientists from Copernicu...)

    2016
  • Writing for Freedom

    (Lydia Maria Child grew up in the 1800s reading countless ...)

    2000
  • Landlady 1991
  • The Wonder Of Wings 2009
  • Who, Me? Paranoid? 2006
  • The Achievers 2005
  • Permutations of the Humble Coffee Bean 2015

Views

Erica Stux was a feminist.

Quotations: "I began writing when I had children of my own, first poems and prose pieces for children, then light verse for adults, and finally, longer works. I write about subjects that interest me and would, I hope, interest others."

"I especially like to write for children about animals and the environment, but my manuscripts on these topics are still searching for a publisher. I still write poetry for children, both factual and whimsical, and an occasional humorous verse for adults."

Membership

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  Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators , United States

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  California Writers Club , United States

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  Sierra Club , United States

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  National Audubon Society , United States

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  Mensa , United Kingdom

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  Chatsworth Women's Club , United States

Interests

• Conservation, bird-watching, playing bridge, playing accordion, composing songs

Connections

Erica Stux married Paul Stux on November 19, 1955. He passed away on July 5, 1984. They had three children, Lydia, Ted, and Arnold. Erica Stux's second husband was William Shore. They married on February 6, 2000.

Father:

Max Houser

Mother:

Trudy Houser

Trudy Houser's maiden name was Moses.

Sister:

Renate Houser

husband:

Paul Stux

Paul Stux was Erica Stux's first husband. He died in 1984.

husband:

William Shore

William Shore was Erica Stux's second husband. He was an entrepreneur in the field of plastics.

Daughter:

Lydia Stux

Son:

Ted Stux

Son:

Arnold Stux