Mabel Leigh Hunt born in Coatesville, Indiana, and raised in Greencastle. At age ten she moved with her parents the Quaker settlement of Plainfield, Indiana. When her father died, she moved with her mother to Indianapolis. In 1910 she attended DePauw University in Greencastle. In 1923 she wet to Western University Library School in Cleveland. In 1926 she became a librarian at the Indianapolis Public Library. In 1934 she published her first book, Lucinda, A Little Girl of 1860. In 1938 she left became a full-time writer. Two of her books, Have You Seen Tom Thumb? and Better Known as Johnny Appleseed, were Newbery Honor books.
American children's writer
| Born | 1 November 1892 |
| Died | 3 September 1971 |
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American children's writer
| Born | 1 November 1892 |
| Died | 3 September 1971 |
Subjects
Fiction, Juvenile fiction, Quakers, Children's literature, Family life, Newbery Honor, Appleseed, johnny, 1774-1845, Appleseed, johnny, 1774-1845, juvenile literature, Banks and banking, Bears, Biography, Birthdays, Central Banks and banking, Children's fiction, Circus, City and town life, Community life, Conduct of life, Cousins, Dwarfs, Family, Farm life, Folklore, Frontier and pioneer life, GirlsID Numbers
- OLID: OL2179523A
- ISNI: 000000007873323X
- Library of Congress Names: n50030626
- VIAF: 25699965
- Wikidata: Q6721469
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q6721469
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Alternative names
- Mabel Hunt
- Hunt, Mabel Leigh
- Mabel Leigh 1892- Hunt
- Mabel Leigh Hunt [drawings by Louis Slobodkin]
- mabel leigh hunt
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