Background
Marc Aronson was born on October 19, 1950 in New York. He is the son of the American designer Boris Aronson and Lisa Aronson, the grandson of rabbi Solomon Aronson, and of the musical conductor Heinrich Jalowetz.
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Marc Aronson was born on October 19, 1950 in New York. He is the son of the American designer Boris Aronson and Lisa Aronson, the grandson of rabbi Solomon Aronson, and of the musical conductor Heinrich Jalowetz.
Aronson has a Doctor of Philosophy degree in American History from New York University.
Marc Aronson has written history and biography nonfiction books for children and young adults. He wrote a column for School Library Journal called "Consider the Source". As of September 2014 he writes an SLJ blog called "Nonfiction Matters".
He served in Harper & Row in New York as an editor, and later became a senior editor in Henry Holt Books for Young Readers. From 2000 to 2004 he worked in Carus Publishing as an editorial director and vice president of nonfiction development. He was also a managing editor of zooba.com and an instructor in publishing courses at New York University, Simmons College, and the Radcliffe Publishing program.
Nowadays he is an assistant professor of practice at the School of Library and Information Science faculty at Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
Marc Aronson writes nonfiction titles for young adults that have been praised for the author’s engrossing prose style and unique approach to source materials.
In 2001 Aronson won the first Robert F. Sibert Medal for nonfiction for Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado.
His book Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde was recognized as the Best Book of the Year by Publishers Weekly and Book with notable citations by the New York Times in 1998.
(From the fossil hunter who discovered the Homo naledi fos...)
2012(With a cast of characters ranging from Langston Hughes an...)
2017(Nine of YA literature’s top writers, including Walter Dea...)
2011(When this award-winning husband-and-wife team discovered ...)
2010Marc Aronson married Marina Budhos on September 14, 1997. They have two sons.
Boris Aronson was an American scenic designer for Broadway and Yiddish theatre. He won the Tony Award for Scenic Design six times in his career.
Marina Budhos is an author of award-winning fiction and nonfiction.
Heinrich Jalowetz was an Austrian musicologist and conductor. He was one of the core members of what became known as the Second Viennese School in the orbit of Arnold Schoenberg.