Irene Hunt

Irene Hunt was born in 1902 in Pontiac, Illinois. Her family soon moved to Newton, Illinois, and after her father died when she was seven, they moved near her grandparents' farm in southern Illinois. Her childhood was often lonely, but she was close to her grandfather, who told her stories about his own boyhood during the Civil War. She earned a master's degree in Minneapolis, taught English and French in Illinois public schools for many years, taught psychology at the University of South Dakota, and later returned to teaching in elementary and junior high schools. Her first book, Across Five Aprils (1964), drawn from her grandfather's memories, follows Jethro Creighton, a boy on an Illinois farm whose family is divided by the Civil War; it was a Newbery Honor Book. Her second, Up a Road Slowly (1966), about a girl growing up with her aunt, won the Newbery Medal. She wrote several more novels and died in Illinois on her ninety-ninth birthday in 2001.

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Faith: Faith not well documented; she wrote of her faith in 'courage, love, and mercy'. Source: Wikipedia