The Best Christmas Pageant Ever BARBARA ROBINSON Barbara

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever BARBARA ROBINSON

Barbara Robinson was born on October 24, 1927. She grew up in a southern Ohio river town of Portsmouth. That small town atmosphere affected most of her writing. Her father died when she was three years old. Her mother taught school forty-nine years in that same small town, and her major (indeed, only) extravagance was books. Barbara grew up with, and quickly adopted, the notion that reading was the only way to fill up every scrap of loose time you could snatch.

INSPIRATION She had the benefit, as well, of a wide variety of aunts and uncles and cousins, plus the extended family so common to small town life -- the neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mailmen, local heroes and local neâer-do-wells, and even a local blacksmith. . . great stuff to feed the imagination.

College Barbara began writing very early -poems, plays, stories -- and just never quit. She attended local schools and then, being both book-struck and stage-struck, found a college -- Allegheny College -where she could satisfy both passions.

Career Barbara has been a short story writer, with some fortyfifty stories in Mc. Call's, Ladies' Home Journal, Redbook, etc. ; a playwright; an occasional poet, and finally and most happily, an author of children's books. . . happily, because there's no greater audience than boys and girls who read books and demand that those books be the most exciting, the most mysterious, the most touching, the funniest. . . the Best.

Personal Life Barbara lived and wrote in a suburb of Philadelphia. She has two daughters -- Carolyn, who is a nurse, and Marjorie, who is a sixth grade teacher and at home now with my grandchildren Tomas and Marcos, and all these people read books like crazy! She died July 9, 2013.

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