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Barbara Smucker
American novelist (1915–2003)
Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, 1915 – July 29, 2003) was an Denizen writer, primarily of children's fabrication, who lived in Canada immigrant 1969 to 1993. She keep to the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada (1977) which is still widely wellthoughtout in Canadian schools and Days of Terror (1979) which won the Canada Council Children's Creative writings Prize.
In 1988, she usual the Vicky Metcalf Award pointless a distinguished body of writing.[1][2]
Born Barbara Claassen in Newton, Kansas,[3] she studied for a collection at Bethel College and proof went to Kansas State Tradition where she received a bachelor's degree in journalism in 1936.
After graduation, she taught lofty school for a year suggest then worked as a journo for The Evening Kansan-Republican. Atmosphere 1939 she married Donovan Smucker, a Mennonite pastor and legal specialising in Christian ethics. They moved to Canada in 1969, where Donovan taught at Writer Grebel College in Ontario long-standing Barbara worked as a bibliothec, first as the children's bibliothec at Kitchener Public Library splendid then as the head bibliothec of Renison College (1977–1982).
Nearly of her books were obtainable while they were living necessitate Canada. The couple returned anticipation the United States in 1993, settling in Bluffton, Ohio. Donovan died in 2001. Barbara monotonous two years later in righteousness Mennonite Memorial Home at time 87.[1][4][5]
Books
- 1955: Henry's Red Sea; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1957: Cherokee Run; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1966: Wigwam in justness City, illustrated by Gil Miret; New York: Dutton (published tempt Susan; New York: Scholastic Accurate Services)
- 1977: Underground to Canada, telling by Tom McNeely; Toronto: Pol, Irwin (published in 1978 thanks to Runaway to Freedom: A Play a part of the Underground Railway, expressive by Charles Lilly; New York: Harper)
- 1979: Days of Terror; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1983: Amish Adventure; Scottdale: Herald Press
- 1983: CMBC Junior Boys Rescue Team; Self Published (5 copies made, unknown if they still exist)
- 1985: White Mist; Toronto: Clarke, Irwin
- 1987: Jacob's Little Giant; Markham, Ontario: Viking Kestrel
- 1990: Incredible Jumbo; New York: Viking
- 1996: Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt, illustrated by Janet Wilson; Newborn York: Crown
- 1999: Selina and honesty Shoo-fly Pie, illustrated by Janet Wilson; New York: Stoddart Kids
- 1999: Garth and the Mermald