Charlotte Zolotow (born Charlotte Gertrude Shapiro June 26 1915 in Norfolk, Virginia) is an American author, poet, editor, and publisher of many books for children. She has been published by more than 20 different houses (many of which she has outlasted). She was an editor, and later publisher, at Harper & Row, which was called Harper & Brothers when she began to work there and is now known as HarperCollins. Among the many writers she edited are Paul Fleischman, Paul Zindel, Mary Rogers, Robert Lipsyte, and Francesca Lia Block. She is the mother of the writer Crescent Dragonwagon and poker tournament champion Stephen Zolotow. She was formerly married to the late Maurice Zolotow. She lives in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York.
Books
- The Park Book, illustrated by H.A. Rey (1944) ISBN 0-06-443092-8
- The Storm Book, illustrated by Margaret Bloy Graham (1952) ISBN 0-06-443194-0
- Mr. Rabbit and the Lovely Present, illustrated by Maurice Sendak (1963) ISBN 0-8085-2587-5
- My Grandson Lew, illustrated by William Pene du Bois (1974) ISBN 0-06-026961-8
- River Winding (1978) ISBN 0-690-03866-6
- Snippets: A Gathering of Poems, Pictures, and Possibilities (1993) ISBN 0-06-020819-8
