Adele DeLeeuw (pronounced Lew-oo; 1899–1988) was an
American–Dutch children's story
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writer. ''
The New York Times'' attributes more than 75 children's book to her.
Biography
She was a native of
Ohio. She graduated from Hartridge School for Girls in 1918. In her adult life, moved to
Plainfield, New Jersey. Here, she worked as a librarian and then as a secretary to her father from 1919 to 1926.
Legacy
After her death she bequeathed her estate to the Plainfield Foundation which in turn generated a
scholarship fund
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for students seeking
post-secondary education in the Humanities and Sciences. Members of the
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of the Plainfields took on the responsibility of managing the selection of scholarship recipients and presenting those awards. DeLeeuw managed to bequeath a total of for that cause. Every year since, there has been a scholarship
award ceremony, including dinner at the Spain Inn Restaurant in Piscataway, NJ. As of 2019, the fund has granted more than the original $1 million bequest, which continues to grow.
After her sister Cateau died, she wrote a book ''Remembered with Love: Letters to my Sister''. The book is a series of chapters for each month of the year. In it, Adele writes to Cateau with remembrances of their lives together and expresses her heartfelt love for the sister she sorely misses. It gives a snapshot of their lives together and is among her last and most important books.
Besides the books mentioned above Adele DeLeeuw has written many children's books about folktales and historical figures like ''Legends and Folk Tales of Holland'', and ''Anthony Wayne Washington's General''.
Selected works
* Remembered with Love: Letters to my Sister.
*Nurses Who Led the Way. DeLeeuw, Adele & DeLeeuw, Cateau. (1961). Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Pub. Co.
References
External links
* http://www.plainfield.com/
* https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/14/obituaries/adele-de-leeuw-88-a-writer-for-children.html
* Remembered with Love: Letters to my Sister.
* http://www.clubrunner.ca/portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?cid=7685&pid=55990
* http://www.spaininn.net/
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1899 births
1988 deaths
20th-century American women writers