![]() ![]() The Byarses began their family by welcoming two daughters during a five-year teaching stint at Clemson, then headed to the University of Illinois in 1955 so that Ed could earn his Ph.D. ![]() The pair were married on June 24, 1950, three weeks after her college graduation. By then she had already met her future husband, Edward Ford Byars, who was teaching engineering at Clemson College. ![]() I loved books.” Her earliest memory involves her frustration with her father who playfully would change some of the words when he read The Three Bears to her.Īfter attending Furman University, Byars graduated from Queens College in Charlotte with a B.A. Growing up, Byars said, “I had no intention of becoming a writer… but I had one thing in common with every other writer I’ve ever met. In her essay for Something About the Author, Byars recalled a childhood that included living in the country for a few lean years and keeping animals when her father found work at a cotton mill office, and then living in the city of Charlotte, which was her home from fourth grade until she finished college.Īs years passed, she often thought of her vivid early experiences and her deeply felt childhood concerns, which would later find their way into her books. She was 91.īyars was born on Augin Charlotte, N.C. Prolific children’s author Betsy Byars, winner of the Newbery Medal and National Book Award, among many other distinctions, died on February 26 in Seneca, S.C. ![]()
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