biography
| name: |
Byars, Betsy (Cromer)
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pronunciation:
[biyerz]
| sex:
| female
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| lived:
| (1928– )
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| biography:
| Children's novelist, born in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. She began to write in the 1960s, but had no great impact until The Summer of the Swans (1970) was awarded the Newbery Medal. Specializing in kitchen sink drama - contemporary realism - she produced a number of popular novels, including The Eighteenth Emergency (1973) and Goodbye, Chicken Little (1979). Later works are A Bean Birthday and Tarot Says Beware (both 1996) |
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