Nancy McArthur (October 30, 1931 – July 15, 2020) was an American children's
author
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. Living in
Berea, Ohio
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, she was a part-time journalism professor at
Baldwin-Wallace College
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. She wrote fourteen books, nine of which form a
series
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called ''The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks''. The series follows the lives of two young brothers, Michael and Norman, along with their
sentient
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pet plants, Stanley and Fluffy. The
first book in this series is the most popular book written by McArthur. She reworked this book into a
play
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in 2000.
She died on July 15, 2020, from
Parkinson's disease
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.
Works
* ''Megan Gets a Dollhouse'' (1988)
* ''Pickled Peppers'' (1988)
* ''
The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' (1988)
* ''The Adventure of the Buried Treasure'' (1990)
* ''The Return of the Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' (1990)
* ''The Adventure of the Backyard Sleepout'' (1992)
* ''The Escape Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' (1992)
* ''The Secret Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' (1993)
* ''More Adventures Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' (1994)
* ''The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Up In Space'' (1995)
* ''The Mystery Of The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks'' (1996)
* ''The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Gets A Girlfriend'' (1997)
* ''The Adventure of the Big Snow'' (1998)
* ''The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks Goes Hollywood'' (1999)
References
Deaths from Parkinson's disease
Neurological disease deaths in Ohio
20th-century American novelists
American children's writers
People from Berea, Ohio
Baldwin Wallace University alumni
American women children's writers
American women novelists
20th-century American women writers
1931 births
2020 deaths
21st-century American women
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