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Townley, Roderick Carl was born on June 7, 1942 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Richard and Elise (Fredman) Townley.
(Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it...)
Sylvie had an amazing life, but she didn't get to live it very often. Sylvie has been a twelve-year-old princess for more than eighty years, ever since the book she lives in was first printed. She's the heroine, and her story is exciting -- but that's the trouble. Her story is always exciting in the same way. Sylvie longs to get away and explore the world outside the confines of her book. When she breaks the cardinal rule of all storybook characters and looks up at the Reader, Sylvie begins a journey that not even she could have anticipated. And what she accomplishes goes beyond any great good thing she could have imagined...
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(How do you avenge - or forgive - your own murder four hun...)
How do you avenge - or forgive - your own murder four hundred years after it happened? Prompted by recurrent dreams, sixteen-year-old Dana Landgrave uncovers an ancient crime that has drawn the same souls together through three lifetimes. There's nothing sinister about the girl's sunlit twenty-first-century American life in Portsmouth, New Hampshire. Yet, centuries ago, terrible things were done - by someone she knows! Could it be her easygoing, easy-to-look-at boyfriend, Chase? Or her younger brother, Ben, who has been confined to a wheelchair since a school bus accident? What about Gianna, her inscrutable enemy on the yearbook staff? Or her eccentric psychotherapist, Dr. Sprague? As Dana summons courage to reenter the past, each incarnation propels her to new discoveries - and new suspicions - until the threads of all three lives converge in a devastating revelation.
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(What a relief when the old storybook is republished and t...)
What a relief when the old storybook is republished and the characters who live inside it suddenly discover they have Readers again - lots of Readers - especially when the book is loaded on to the Web. The endless reading exhausts the characters - but that's nothing to the problems they face as strange things start happening. Words get changed around, scenes disappear - and Sylvie and her friends must launch themselves into the labyrinth of cyberspace to confront a twenty-first century evil that threatens to destroy their world.
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Townley, Roderick Carl was born on June 7, 1942 in Orange, New Jersey, United States. Son of William Richard and Elise (Fredman) Townley.
He received his Doctor of Philosophy from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and was for many years a poet and fiction writer, and for a time lived in New York City and wrote for television Guide, The Village Voice and other publications.
In 2001, he began the Sylvie Cycle, a metafictional series about the spunky, fictional Princess Sylvie who lives her life in a book Roderick Townley has published over a dozen books, comprising poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and literary criticism. The Sylvie Cycle, his trilogy of middle grade novels, has been widely praised and appears in several foreign editions, as well as in large print and audio versions.
He has also written two young adult novels, Sky (Atheneum, 2004), and The Red Thread: A Novel in Three Incarnations (Atheneum, 2007).
Mr. Townley taught in Chile on a Fulbright scholarship, worked in New York as an editor, and now writes from his home in Kansas. His novel, The Great Good Thing (the first volume in The Sylvie Cycle), was a Top Ten Book Sense Pick and has been optioned for film.
Townley continues to write poetry, publishing his work in The Paris Review, The Yale Review, The North American Review, and other journals.
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Member Academy American Poets, Poetry Society of America.
Married Libby Blackman, April 4, 1970 (divorced March 1980). 1 child, Jesse; married Wyatt Baker, February 15, 1986. 1 child, Grace Whitman.