Edith Thacher Hurd

Edith Thacher Hurd
Born Edith Thacher
September 14, 1910[lower-alpha 1]
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Died January 25, 1997 (aged 86)
Walnut Creek, California, United States
Occupation Writer
Spouse Clement Hurd (m. 1939–88)
Children Thacher Hurd

Edith Thacher Hurd (September 14, 1910 – January 25, 1997) was an American writer of children's books.

Biography

Edith Thacher was born in Kansas City, Missouri in 1910 to John Hamilton Thacher and Edith Gilman Thacher. She had one older brother, John Jr., and one younger brother, Nicholas, who served as the United States Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1970 to 1973.[3] She attended Radcliffe College and the Bank Street College of Education, where she first met Clement Hurd and Margaret Wise Brown. Thacher and Hurd married in 1939, collaborated on over fifty books, and had a son, Thacher Hurd.[4] Hurd also co-wrote with Brown, under the pseudonym Juniper Sage.[5] She died on January 25, 1997 in Walnut Creek, California, aged 86.[4]

Notes

  1. ↑ Some sources state Hurd's date of birth to be September 13, 1910.[1] Others,[2] including her brother,[3] cite September 14, 1910.

References

  1. ↑ "Edith Thacher Hurd". Bookology Magazine. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
  2. ↑ Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Johnson, Niel M. (May 28, 1992). "Oral History Interview with Nicholas G. Thacher". Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Saxon, Wolfgang (January 28, 1997). "Edith Hurd, 86, Who Introduced The Planet to Young Readers". New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
  5. ↑ Catalog record for Juniper Sage at the United States Library of Congress

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