Gerald Andrews Hausman (born October 13, 1945) is a storyteller and award-winning author of books about Native America, animals, mythology, and West Indian culture. Hausman has published over seventy books for both children and adults.
After graduation, Hausman married Loretta "Lorry" Wright and moved to Lenox, Massachusetts, where he taught creative writing and English at the Windsor Mountain School.[citation needed] The Hausmans, along with David Silverstein, founded The Bookstore Press, which published some of the first paperback books for children. These included such authors as Ruth Krauss, Maurice Sendak, Crockett Johnson, Aram Saroyan and Paul Metcalf.[citation needed] In 1977, Gerald and Lorry moved to Tesuque, New Mexico, where they lived for seventeen years, raising two daughters, Hannah and Mariah.
During this time, Hausman worked as poetry teacher, editor, publisher and English teacher at Santa Fe Preparatory School in nearby Santa Fe, going on to found the Blue Harbour School of Creative Writing on the former estate of playwright Noël Coward in Port Maria, Jamaica.[2] In addition, he worked as a poet in the schools in the city of Pittsfield, Massachusetts.
Starting with the 2002 publication The Boy From Nine Miles: The Early Life of Bob Marley, Hausmann has collaborated on five books co-authored with Cedella Marley, the daughter of late musician Bob Marley.[3]
Midwest Book Awards Children's Picture Books, Illustration: Graphic, and Total Book Design, USA Today Best Books Award, Foreword IndieFab Book of the Year in Picture Books, Early Reader, 2013, for "The Otter, The Spotted Frog and the Great Flood: A Creek Indian Story."
Worksedit
Fictionedit
The Shivurrus Plant of Mopant, Giligia Press, 1968
New Marlboro Stage, Giligia Press, 1968 & Bookstore Press, 1971
Circle Meadow, Bookstore Press, 1972
The Boy with the Sun Tree Bow, Berkshire Traveller, 1973
Beth: The Little Girl of Pine Knoll, Bookstore Press, 1974
Sitting on the Blue-Eyed Bear: Navajo Myths & Legends, Lawrence Hill, 1975
The Future Is The Beginning: The Words and Wisdom of Bob Marley (with Cedella Marley), Tuff Gong Books/Harmony, 2012
Guns, Edited by Gerald Hausman, Speaking Volumes, 2016
Audioedit
Stargazer, Sunset, 1991
Turtle Island Alphabet, Sunset, 1992
Navajo Nights, Sunset, 1993
Native American Animal Stories, Sunset, 1993
The Turquoise Horse, Irie Books, 2006
Drum Talk, Speaking Volumes, 2010
Ghost Walk, Speaking Volumes, 2010
Native American Animal Stories, Speaking Volumes, 2010
Navajo Nights, Speaking Volumes, 2010
Stargazer, Speaking Volumes, 2010
The Turquoise Horse, Speaking Volumes, 2010
Wilderness, Speaking Volumes, 2013
Meditations With the Navajo, Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., 2019
Rastafarian Children of Solomon, Inner Traditions/Bear & Co., 2019
Referencesedit
^"A Guide to the Gerald Hausman Papers, 1981–2003". University of Connecticut. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
^Sigwald, John (March 22, 1996). "Jamaican Legends Retold by Masterful Storyteller". Unger Library. Retrieved April 10, 2017.
^Cooke, Mel (April 20, 2005). "Children involved in Marley book launch". Jamaica Gleaner. Archived from the original on April 20, 2005. Retrieved April 10, 2017.