Norton Juster (1929-2021) · AuthorAuthor
Norton Juster
1929-2021 · American architect and children's author, writer of The Phantom Tollbooth
About Norton Juster
Norton Juster (1929–2021) was born in Brooklyn, New York, the son of an architect, and studied architecture at the University of Pennsylvania (1952) and city planning at the University of Liverpool. He served in the U.S. Navy Civil Engineer Corps, practiced as an architect, co-founding a firm in Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, and taught architecture and environmental design at Hampshire College from 1970 to 1992. His other books include The Dot and the Line (1963) and The Hello, Goodbye Window (2005), which won the Caldecott Medal for its illustrator, Chris Raschka. He died in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 2021.
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The Phantom TollboothNorton Juster
1961 · Postwar Contemporary · Novel
The Phantom Tollbooth is a comic fantasy about Milo, a boy so bored that nothing seems worth doing, learning, or even noticing. One afternoon he finds a large package in his room containing a toy tollbooth, a map of unfamiliar lands, coins and a rule book.