Barbara smucker biography

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  • Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, – July 29, ) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from to
  • Barbara Claassen Smucker was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from to She is the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada which is still widely studied in Canadian schools and Days.

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    Smucker, Barbara Claassen ()

    Barbara Claassen Smucker at book signing for Cherokee Run in

    Barbara Claassen Smucker: children's fiction writer and librarian; born 1 September in Newton, Kansas, to Cornelius W. (a banker) and Addie (Lander) Claassen, oldest child, only daughter, along with three younger brothers, Lander, Walter, and Morris. She married Donovan Smucker, college professor and minister, on 21 January They had two sons, Timothy and Thomas, and a daughter Rebecca. Barbara was baptized at age 12 in the Presbyterian Church in Newton, Kansas. At the time of her death she was a member of First Mennonite Church in Bluffton, Ohio. She died 29 July at Mennonite Memorial Home and is buried in Maple Grove cemetery, Bluffton, Ohio.

    After attending Bethel College in Kansas for a year, Barbara earned a BS () in journalism from Kansas State University at Manhattan. She taught high school English in Harper, Kansas (), then returned to her home town to work as a reporter for th

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    Barbara Smucker

    American novelist (–)

    Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, – July 29, ) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from to She is the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada () which is still widely studied in Canadian schools and Days of Terror () which won the Canada Council Children's Literature Prize. In , she received the Vicky Metcalf Award for a distinguished body of writing.[1][2]

    Born Barbara Claassen in Newton, Kansas,[3] she studied for a year at Bethel College and then went to Kansas State University where she received a bachelor's degree in journalism in After graduation, she taught high school for a year and then worked as a journalist for The Evening Kansan-Republican. In she married Donovan Smucker, a Mennonite pastor and academic specialising in Christian ethics. They moved to Canada in , where Donovan taught at Conrad Grebel College in Ontario while Barbar

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    Smucker, Barbara Claassen ()

    Newton Kansan obituary: Aug 1 p. 2

    Birth date: Sep 1


    Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: Aug 11 p. 7

    text of obituary:

    Author of 14 children's books dies at age 87

    By Mennonite Weekly Review staff

    BLUFFTON, Ohio &#; Barbara Claassen Smucker, the author of 14 wel-regarded books for children, died July 29 in Bluffton. She was

    One of Smucker's books, Underground to Canada, was named one of the 50 best books of all time in Canada. A final book, Selina and the Shoo Fly Pie, was published in

    Smucker had received numerous awards for her writing, including an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Bluffton College in Other awards include the Canada council Award and the Vicki Metcalf Award.

    Smucker's first novel, Henry's Red Sea, was published in

    But it was her account of a young fugitive slave, Runaway to Freedom, that earned Smucker some of her best reviews.

    The book, based in part on stories Smucker heard as a child f