Edith Thacher Hurd (September 14, 1910 – January 25, 1997) was an American writer of children's books. She published 70 books in her lifetime,[4] fifty of them illustrated by her husband, Clement Hurd.
Edith Thacher Hurd | |
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| Born | Edith Thacher September 14, 1910[a] Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | January 25, 1997 (aged 86) Walnut Creek, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Education | Radcliffe College Bank Street College of Education |
| Years active | 1938–1983 |
| Spouse | |
| Children | John Thacher Hurd |
Biography
editEdith 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. She taught for four years at New York's Dalton School, and during World War II, worked as a news analyst at the United States Office of War Information in San Francisco. Thacher and Hurd married in 1939, collaborated on over fifty books, and had a son, John Thacher Hurd, who later became a children's book writer as well.[5] Hurd also co-wrote with Brown, under the pseudonym "Juniper Sage."[6]
She died on January 25, 1997, in Walnut Creek, California, aged 86.[5]
Hurd's work, as well as that of her husband and son, was featured at several museums in the traveling exhibition "From Goodnight Moon to Art Dog: The World of Clement, Edith, and Thacher Hurd."[7][8][9]
Selected works
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with Margaret Wise Brownedit
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Illustrated by Clement Hurdedit
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Notes
editReferences
edit- ^ "Edith Thacher Hurd". Bookology Magazine. Retrieved April 5, 2015.
- ^ Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002.
- ^ a b Johnson, Niel M. (May 28, 1992). "Oral History Interview with Nicholas G. Thacher". Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
- ^ Saxon, Wolfgang. "William Rufus Scott, 86, Pioneer In Children's Book Publishing," The New York Times (July 25, 1997).
- ^ a b Saxon, Wolfgang (January 28, 1997). "Edith Hurd, 86, Who Introduced The Planet to Young Readers". The New York Times. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
- ^ Catalog record for Juniper Sage at the United States Library of Congress
- ^ "Exhibit Brings 'Goodnight Moon' to Life". The Washington Post. Associated Press. April 24, 2006. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ Kusnetz, Ilyse (August 26, 2004). "The Art Of Picture Books". Orlando Sentinel. Retrieved August 19, 2018.
- ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (July 29, 2003). "Arts Briefing". The New York Times. Retrieved August 20, 2018.
External links
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- Edith Thacher Hurd at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Hurd, Edith Thacher (1938–1983). "Edith Thacher Hurd Papers". Children's Literature Research Collection, University of Minnesota Libraries. Retrieved April 4, 2015.
- Edith Thacher Hurd at Library of Congress, with 85 library catalog records
- Juniper Sage (joint pseudonym) at LC Authorities, with 1 record