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American children's books author (1928–2020)
Betsy Byars
Born Betsy Cromer(1928-08-07 ) August 7, 1928Charlotte, North Carolina , U.S. Died February 26, 2020(2020-02-26) (aged 91 )Seneca, South Carolina , U.S. Occupation Children's author, novelist, freelance writer Education
Queens College
Period 1962–2010 Genre Children's fiction , Young adult fiction , Historical fiction , Realistic fiction Notable works
The Night Swimmers
Notable awards Newbery Medal National Book Award betsybyars
Betsy Byars (née Cromer ; August 7, 1928 – February 26, 2020) was an American author of children's books . Her novel Summer of the Swans Newbery Medal .[1] National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980)[2] Edgar Award for Wanted... Mud Blossom (1991).
Byars has been called "one of the ten best writers for children in the world" by Nancy Chambers, editor of the British literary journal Signal ,[3] Regina Medal for lifetime achievement from the Catholic Library Association .[4] [5]
Biography
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Betsy Cromer Byars was born August 7, 1928, in Charlotte, North Carolina to George Guy, a cotton mill executive, and Nan (née [5] Great Depression . She attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina , from 1946 to 1948, before transferring to Queens College in Charlotte, where she graduated in 1950 with a bachelor's degree in English.[5]
After graduating, Cromer met Edward Ford Byars, a graduate student in engineering at Clemson University , and they married on June 24, 1950. They had three daughters and a son between 1951 and 1958: Laurie, Betsy Ann, Nan, and Guy.[5] Clemson, South Carolina , to Urbana, Illinois , where Edward pursued further graduate work at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , eventually becoming a professor of engineering at West Virginia University in 1960.[5] The Saturday Evening Post Look Everywoman's Magazine , and TV Guide Clementine , was published in 1962.[5] [6] Seneca, South Carolina , the bottom floor of their house being a hangar.[1]
Daughters Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers are also children's writers.[7]
Byars moved back to Seneca in 1980 and retired in 1990. She died in Seneca on February 26, 2020.[8]
Works
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Ant
1996 My Brother, Ant
1997 Ant Plays Bear
Bingo Brown
1988 The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown
1991 Bingo Brown and the Language of Love
1992 Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover
1992 Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance
Boo
2006 Boo's Dinosaur
2009 Boo's Surprise
Blossom Family
1986 The Not-Just-Anybody Family
1986 The Blossoms Meet the Vulture Lady
1987 The Blossoms and the Green Phantom
1987 A Blossom Promise
1991 Wanted...Mud Blossom
Golly Sisters
1985 The Golly Sisters Go West
1990 Hooray for the Golly Sisters
1994 The Golly Sisters Ride Again
Herculeah Jones
1994 The Dark Stairs
1995 Tarot Says Beware
1996 Dead Letter
1997 Death's Door
1998 Disappearing Acts
2006 King of Murder
2006 The Black Tower
Collaborations with daughters Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers
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2000 My Dog, My Hero
2004 The SOS File
2007 Dog Diaries
2010 Cat Diaries
Memoir
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Short stories
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References
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"National Book Awards – 1981" . National Book Foundation . Retrieved 2012-02-27.
^ Kuznets, Lois R. (1981). "Betsy Byars' Slice of 'American Pie'Children's Literature Association Quarterly . 5 4 ). Johns Hopkins University Press: 31–33. doi :10.1353/chq.0.1857 . S2CID 144268031 .
^ "Regina Medal" Archived 2012-04-27 at the Wayback Machine . Catholic Library Association. Retrieved 2013-11-24.
^ a b c d e f "Byars, Betsy" . EBMA's Top 100 Authors . Educational Paperback Association. Archived from the original on 29 September 2011. Retrieved 20 May 2011 .
^ Autobiography from author's website.
^ "Children's author Byars tells her own tale" . Reuters . February 11, 2009.
^ "Betsy Cromer Byars" . The Greenville News . Retrieved February 28, 2020 .
^ Byars, Betsy Cromer. (2009). Boo's surprise ISBN 978-0-8050-8817-5 OCLC 278980721 .
^ Byars, Betsy Cromer. (2008). Domino ISBN 978-1-4343-9236-7 OCLC 320237487 .
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