Stella Pevsner (October 4, 1921 — June 11, 2020) was an American author of children's books and works of

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published since the late 1960s.Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2007. Reproduced in Biography Resource Center. Farmington Hills, Mich.: Thomson Gale. 2007. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC Pevsner published 18 books, including ''And You Give Me a Pain, Elaine'', ''Cute is a Four-Letter Word'', ''How Could You Do It, Diane?'', and ''Sing For Your Father, Su Phan''.Stella Pevsner http://www.midlandauthors.com/pevsner.html She received the 1980

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for ''Cute is a Four-Letter Word''. Pevsner continued to write into her 90s, with her last book in 2018 being dictated. Pevsner was born in

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on October 4, 1921. She married Leo Pevsner in 1953 and they had four children. Pevsner died at her home in New Mexico on June 11, 2020.

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* American children's writers 1921 births 2020 deaths People from Lincoln, Illinois Writers from Illinois {{US-child-writer-stub