The Golden Wedge Indian Legends of South America.Please click on your browser's back button to return. The titles below link to the catalog record in MnPALS, the Minnesota Historical Society’s library catalog. The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award for children's books was established in 1979 by the Mankato Friends of the Library association. In 1977, a wing of the Mankato Public Library was named for her and a mural (unveiled in 1980) depicts her life in Mankato. She had one daughter, Merian, born in 1931. Lovelace’s other short stories and novels include, Early Candlelight (1929), a novel set in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, and One Stayed at Welcome (1934), coauthored with her husband Delos W. She is most well-known for her Betsy-Tacy series, published from 1940 to 1955, composed of ten books for young readers set in early twentieth-century Mankato, Minnesota. Lovelace attended the University of Minnesota from 1910-12. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.īirth: April 25, 1892, Mankato, Minnesotaĭeath: March 11, 1980, Claremont, CaliforniaĪt age ten, author Maud Palmer Hart Lovelace, had a booklet of her poems printed, and by age eighteen she had sold her first short story for ten dollars to the Los Angeles Times. She looked a little doubtfully at Betsy's Sunday hat, a flowered brim that left her ears perilously exposed.She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. Ray remarked as she and Julia stood on the front porch seeing Betsy off.
Gray clouds like battleships moved across a purplish sea of sky.
From Down Town A Betsy~Tacy Story (1943) by Maud Hart LovelaceĮarly in November Betsy made her first expedition to the library.
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