Talk:Marijane Meaker

Separate Vin Packer article?

It seems ambitious when I've only just created an M.E. Kerr article at all, but it seems to me there may be a need for a separate article about Meaker's earliest pen name. I created the Kerr article because (a) she's one of the most prolific and honored young-adult writers around, yet there was no article about her and (b) there were references to Kerr in other major articles. However, I'm of two minds about including the Vin Packer material in this article.

On the one hand, the article is about Kerr and her work, whose audience does not overlap with the Packer books at all. In addition, many potential readers of this article are younger children who may not be ready to hear about her adult work or personal life. Some, sad to say, might even reject reading Kerr's YA novels after reading these other details.

On the other hand, the article is also about Meaker; it was created under M.E. Kerr for the reasons listed above, but I didn't see the point in a separate article for her real name, as she's only begun in the last three years or so to achieve any real publicity under that name (i.e., since the 2003 publication of her book about her relationship with Patricia Highsmith). So Packer is part of that story. Also, there are arguments for making Kerr's readership aware of the rest of her life: for GLBT kids who would appreciate not having her orientation "swept under the rug" or might benefit from knowing about her other work, and for other kids who might be encouraged in cutting GLBT authors off their reading lists by not being aware that any of their favorite authors might fall in this category.

Just wanted to open up for the discussion the idea of a separate article. A compromise between the two approaches outlined above would be to have a separate Vin Packer article, but make sure the M. E. Kerr article mentions it so that it needn't be stumbled across or found only by those "in the know" on the topic.Lawikitejana 06:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

This is a good question. I'd like to create articles on books by Ann Aldrich, so they would link here. Marijane Meaker herself has a website with info about Vin Packer and Ann Aldrich, including book titles, so I think she let the cat out of the bag on the gay thing there.Moni3 19:44, 16 July 2007 (UTC)Moni3

Identity

In the article footer, GND=128813202 appears because the German national library evidently catalogs all of the German-language editions under the name Meaker (compare the two GND links below).

Footer template {Authority control} pertains to the identity Marijane Meaker. -P64 2015-05-07

Kerr, M. E. Meaker, Marijane (mainly) Packer, Vin Aldrich, Ann |LCCN=no97008710 }} James, Mary

At a glance it seems that all five WorldCat pages may be useful, even necessary for adequate coverage (compare the five WorldCat links above). The first one is now in the article footer.

--P64 (talk) 03:31, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

As External links I added all five templates {{worldcat id}}, sequenced by surname. By the number of libraries that report holding their single most popular works, the sequence would be Kerr, James, Meaker, Packer, Aldrich.

In the immediately preceding major edit, I replaced template {{authority control}} for M.E. Kerr with that for Marijane Meaker. The German national library DNB catalogues all of the works together. The US does not, and thus WorldCat does not. --P64 (talk) 20:13, 8 June 2013 (UTC)

Quoting Meet the Authors by Deborah Kovacs (Scholastic, 1995) at google books[1]

"She wrote uner many names, including Laura Winston, Mamie Stone, Edgar Stone, and Winston Albert. It was 'Laura Winston' who made Marijane's first sale in 1951. ...

"Marijane lists two reasons for her many pseudonyms. ... [page 47]

--P64 (talk) 19:48, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

I added templates {{Authority control}} to the personal redirects M. E. Kerr and Vin Packer. We have none for Aldrich and James. --P64 (talk) 14:55, 7 May 2015 (UTC)

Influences/influenced

{{Infobox writer}} no longer supports the fields influences and influenced. Its template documentation now instructs (twice): "No longer supported. Please move cited/citable instances into prose."

Here are the current parameter values (cut and paste except bullet points):

• | influences = Carson McCullers
  Nancy Drew books
  Charles Dickens
  Erskine Caldwell
  Sherwood Anderson
  Paul Zindel
• | influenced =

See Talk: Ray Bradbury#Influences/influenced for some more explanation with cross-references.

--P64 (talk) 19:36, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Coverage

• Weaver, Madison (October 20, 2016). "Librarians work to make Wikipedia more inclusive with 'Wiki Loves Pride' event". The Bucknellian.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 07:48, 5 November 2016 (UTC)

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Updates?

As of 2006, Meaker was living in East Hampton, New York, where she taught writing classes at the Ashawagh Hall Writers' Workshop.

Anything more recent? Valetude (talk) 10:48, 20 October 2020 (UTC)