Marjorie Torrey Hood Chanslor (November 10, 1891 – September 1, 1964)Marjorie Torrey Chanslor in ''U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007''.
Social Security Administration
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. was an American
illustrator
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and
writer
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of
children's books
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. She also wrote two
mystery novels
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for adults under the name Torrey Chanslor and published under the name Torrey Bevans. She was a runner-up for the annual
American Library Association
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Caldecott Medal
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for children's
picture book
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illustration, in both 1946 and 1947; Opal Wheeler wrote both books, ''Sing Mother Goose'' and ''Sing in Praise'').
Personal life
Chanslor was born in Brooklyn in 1891 to William A. Hood (1860–1918) and Caroline Lincoln Torrey (1861–1949).
In 1911, she married Thomas Murray Bevans (1879–1953) in
Jersey City, New Jersey
Jersey City is the second-most populous city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, after Newark.The Menace''. In April 1935, she was fined $1,450 () for throwing a cocktail at screenwriter Lon Young at a New Year's Eve party at the
Cafe Trocadero
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nightclub in Los Angeles.
She died on September 1, 1964 in Manhattan, at age 72. There was no service, per her request.
Books
* ''Sarah's idea'' (1938), illustrator
* ''Our First Murder'' (
Frederick A. Stokes
Frederick Abbott Stokes (November 4, 1857 – November 15, 1939) was an American publisher, founder and long-time head of the eponymous Frederick A. Stokes Company.
Biography
Stokes graduated from Yale Law School in 1879. He worked at Dodd, Mea ...
, 1940) – mystery fiction for adults, featuring the Beagle Sisters,
* ''Our Second Murder'' (Stokes, 1941),
* ''Penny'' (1944)
* ''Artie and the Princess'' (1945)
* ''Three Little Chipmunks'' (1947)
* ''The Merriweathers'' (1949)
* ''New star of the show'' (1949), illustrator
* ''Alice in Wonderland'' (1955), illustrator
* ''Far from Marlborough Street''
* ''Trouble for Jerry'' Doris Gages, illustrator
* ''Saturday Night is My Delight''
* ''Sing Mother Goose'', written by Opal Wheeler (
E. P. Dutton
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Creator
Edward Payson Dutton ( ...
, 1945)
* ''Sing in Praise: a collection of the best loved hymns'', by Opal Wheeler (Dutton, 1946)
* ''Abide with Me'', illustrator
* ''Hoodoo that Voodoo'', illustrator
* ''Songs to sing with the very young'', by Phyllis Brown Ohanian (1966)
* ''Peter Pan'' (Random House, Inc. 1957), illustrator,