Miriam Young (died September 12, 1974)
[ was an American writer best known for children's books. She also wrote ''Mother Wore Tights'', a memoir about growing up in a ]vaudeville
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family, which was adapted as the 1947 film of the same name, a "Hollywood supermusical".[
Young was born in 1911 or 1912, her ''New York Times'' obituary implies.][ Other sources give year of birth 1913. The Library of Congress gives date February 26, 1913.]
Selected works
* ''Mother Wore Tights'' (1944)
* ''The Dollar Horse'' (1961)
* ''The Secret of Stone House Farm'' (1963)
* ''Miss Suzy'' (1964)
* ''Jellybeans for Breakfast'' (1968)
* ''A Witch's Garden'' (1973)
References
* "Miriam Young, 62, writer, is dead". ''The New York Times Biographical Service''. New York Times & Arno Press. 1974. Volume 5. Page 1355
Google Books
– Originally published in the newspaper, September 13, 1974, p. 40. See above.
*Commire, Anne (ed). "Miriam Young (1913–1974)" in ''Something About the Author''. Gale Research. Detroit, Michigan. 1975
*Reginald, Menville and Burgess. "Miriam Young" in ''Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature''. 1979. Reprinted by Wildside Press. 2010. Volume 2 (Contemporary Science Fiction Authors II)
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American children's writers
1910s births
1974 deaths
20th-century American writers
20th-century American women writers