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Turns out he died in January, 2018. (The ONLY source for this was his website!)

On Thursday, November 16, 2017 at 11:14:39 AM UTC-5, lenona wrote:
> He divides his time between West Rupert, Vermont, and Burlington,
> Vermont.
>
> " 'A Band of Angels' was named an American Library Association Best
> Book in 1986."
>
> His father (also named Julian F. Thompson) wrote the 1920s Broadway
> play "The Warrior's Husband," an Amazonian comedy with sex-role
> reversals. It was revived in 1932 and then starred......Katharine
> Hepburn! (It was her first starring Broadway role.) Unfortunately,
> when it was filmed in 1933, the cast did not include her (the only
> actor's name I recognize is David Manners) and while there is a copy
> at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, you won't find the movie in
> Netflix. A pity, since the two comments at the IMDb are quite positive
> and the movie also warranted a mention in the book version of "The
> Celluloid Closet" (they could get away with a lot of jaw-dropping
> innuendo in 1933, since that was just before the Hayes Code was
> enforced).
>
> http://www.julianthompson.net/
>
> http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1041/Thompson-Julian-F-rancis-1927.html
> (includes biographical details)
>
> http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&um=1&hl=en&q=%22julian+f+thompson%22+&btnG=Search+Images
> (some covers)
>
> https://www.google.com/search?ei=i7gNWv3FAoevmQHj0ZmABA&q=julian+f+thompson+kirkus&oq=julian+f+thompson+kirkus&gs_l=psy-ab.3..33i160k1l2.2120.2785.0.2983.6.6.0.0.0.0.133.539.2j3.5.0....0...1.1.64.psy-ab..1.3.333...33i21k1.0.8eW6ZbJ-wGQ
> (Kirkus reviews)
>
> https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/83500.Julian_F_Thompson
> (reader reviews)
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0yyq3kt2so
> (about "The Grounding of Group 6")
>
>
> In "Major Authors and Illustrators for Children and Young Adults":
>
> "I've never liked the term 'young adult,'" the author wrote in
> Something about the Author Autobiography Series (SAAS). "I don't
> believe I've ever met a kid who thought of herself as one. Even when a
> kid says, 'Stop treating me like a kid' to someone, he usually just
> means 'little kid'. . . . As far as I can tell, the term 'young adult'
> was made up--or at least popularized--by book publishers who were
> trying to convince eleven- and twelve-year-olds that they, the
> publisher, didn't think of them (the kids) as 'children.'"
>
> Thompson does not think of his readers as little children, either. His
> books deal with such pertinent topics as nuclear war, environmental
> problems, national politics, and--most important--teenagers' efforts
> to become functioning, independent human beings. "As a rule," he told
> SAAS, "the teenagers in my books sound like the kids I've known, and a
> lot of my fictional characters are modeled, in part, on real people."
>
> In "Authors and Artists for Young Adults":
>
> In Julian F. Thompson's novels, the unexpected and unlikely are often
> the norm. In his first novel, The Grounding of Group Six, five
> students discover they have been sent to a special private school
> where parents who no longer want their children can have them killed.
> In Discontinued a high schooler searches for the men who killed his
> mother and brother in an explosion. In Ghost Story a teenaged girl
> stalked by a would-be pornographer is protected by a ghostly friend.
> And in Hard Time, a high schooler's toy doll, used in her life skills
> class, is inhabited by a leprechaun. "Thompson seems to be one of
> those adults who listens to young people," commented Daniel J. Cox in
> Writers for Young Adults. "His novels give them the chance to look at
> how they feel and the (sometimes) outrageous things they think. His
> books help readers see some possible answers to the questions they
> just cannot seem to ask anyone but a best friend."...........
>
> Many of Thomson's characters are based on young people he knew and
> worked with as a school teacher........
>
> "So when I started writing books, I decided I'd try to tell stories in
> which kids, most kids, are presented positively, as they go through
> the process of defining themselves and their beliefs. I'm still
> grateful to the reviewer who said a book of mine combined 'romantic
> realism' and 'surrealistic black humor'; indeed, I think they all do.
> My protagonists tend to be idealists, but like almost all people their
> age they have an interest in sex, sometimes use mild vulgarities when
> talking to their friends, and often adopt, at least temporarily, anti-
> establishment attitudes. They aren't dopes, and they don't talk or act
> like dopes. I like to think my readers are as intelligent as they
> are."
>
> WRITINGS:
>
> # The Grounding of Group Six, Avon (New York, NY), 1983.
> # Facing It, Avon (New York, NY), 1983.
> # A Question of Survival, Avon (New York, NY), 1984.
> # Discontinued, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1985.
> # A Band of Angels, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1986.
> # Simon Pure, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1987.
> # The Taking of Mariasburg, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1988.
> # Goofbang Value Daze, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1989.
>
>
> # Herb Seasoning, Scholastic (New York, NY), 1990.
> # Gypsyworld, Holt (New York, NY), 1992.
> # Shepherd, Holt (New York, NY), 1993.
> # The Fling, Holt (New York, NY), 1994.
> # The Trials of Molly Sheldon, Holt (New York, NY), 1995.
> # Philo Fortune's Awesome Journey to His Comfort Zone, Hyperion (New
> York, NY), 1995.
> # Ghost Story, Holt (New York, NY), 1997.
> # Brothers, Knopf (New York, NY), 1998.
>
>
> # Terry and the Pirates, Atheneum (New York, NY), 2000.
> # Hard Time, Atheneum (New York, NY), 2003.
>
>
> Lenona.

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He had four entries in the Something About the Author encyclopedias, plus an entry in vol. 24 of the Children's Literature Review encyclopedias.

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