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Eleanor Clymer was born in New York City in 1906 and graduated from the University of Wisconsin, married and had one child. She worked as a teacher and at other professions before she started writing children's books in 1943. She was the author of over fifty children's books, both fiction and non-fiction. She wrote books about both city and country life and explored themes that ranged from friendship to family relations to cooperation. Clymer died in 1984.
Biographical Source:
The collection contains typescripts, notes, correspondence, galley proofs, etc. for numerous children's books, both fiction and non-fiction, including some of her most noted books.
The collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Donated by the author from 1983-1989.
Gift of:
Adventure of Walter, 1965
Beautiful Soup, 1981
Belinda's New Spring Hat, 1969
Benjamin in the Woods, 1962
Big Pile of Dirt, 1968
Chester, 1954
Children's letters,
Chipmunk in the Forest, 1965
Donny and Company, 1953
Engine Number 7, 1975
Fan mail,
Get-away Car, 1978
Harry, the Wild West Horse, 1963
Here Comes Pere, 1943
Horatio, 1968
Horatio Goes to the Country, 1978
Horatio Solves a Mystery, 1980
Horatio's Birthday, 1976
Horse in the Attic, 1983
How I Went Shopping and What I Got, 1972
Leave Horatio Alone, 1974
Luke Was There, 1973
Me and the Eggman, 1972
Modern American Career Women, 1959
My Brother Stevie, 1967
My Mother is the Smartest Woman in the World, 1982
Santiago's Silver Mine, 1973
Search for Two Bad Mice, 1980
Search for a Living Fossil--The Story of the Coelacanth, 1963
Second Greatest Invention: Search for the First Farmers, 1969
Speech for the Sequoyah Award, March 20, 1981
Spider, the Cave, and the Pottery Bowl, 1971
Take Tarts as Tarts is Passing, 1974
Thirty-three Bunn Street, 1952
This Cat Came to Stay, 1955
Tiny Little House, 1964
Tommy's Wonderful Airplane, 1951
We Lived in the Almont, 1970
Wheels, 1965
Fetz, Ingrid
New York: Atheneum, 1965
Einsel, Hilary
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981
Fiammenghi, Gioia
New York: F. Watts, 1969
Russell, William
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1962
Shecter, Ben
New York: Scholastic Book Services, 1968
Keats, Ezra Jack
New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1954
Fetz, Ingrid
New York: Atheneum, 1965
New York: Watts, 1953
Quackenbush, Robert
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975
de Groat, Diane
New York: Dutton, 1978
Shortall, Leonard
New York: Atheneum, 1963
New York: Robert M. McBride and Company, 1943
Quackenbush, Robert
New York: Atheneum, 1968
Quackenbush, Robert
New York: Atheneum, 1978
Quackenbush, Robert
New York: Atheneum, 1980
Quackenbush, Robert
New York: Atheneum, 1976
Lewin, Ted
New York: Bradbury, 1983
Hyman, Trina Schart
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1972
Quackenbush, Robert
New York: Atheneum, 1974
Degroat, Diane
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973
Stone, David K.
New York: Dutton, 1972
New York: Dodd Mead, 1959
Nesbitt, Elsa
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1967
Kincade, Nancy
New York: Atheneum, 1982
Fetz, Ingrid
New York: Atheneum, 1973
Gill, Margery
New York: Atheneum, 1980
Berg, Joan
New York: Holt, 1963
Rethi, Lili
New York: Holt, 1969
Fetz, Ingrid
New York: Atheneum, 1971
New York: Dutton, 1974
Miller, Jane
New York: Dodd, 1952
Siblely, Don
New York: Watts, 1955
Fetz, Ingrid
New York: Atheneum, 1964
Wiese, Kurt
New York: Dodd, 1951
Stone, David K.
New York: Dutton, 1970
Goslin, Charles
New York: Holt, 1965