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Barbara Britton (born Barbara Maurine Brantingham; September 26, 1920 – January 17, 1980) was an American film and television actress.She is best known for her Western film roles opposite Randolph Scott, Joel McCrea, and Gene Autry and for her two-year tenure as inquisitive amateur sleuth Pam North on the television and radio series Mr. and Mrs. North.
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. Her widely known works include The Poisonwood Bible , the tale of a missionary family in the Congo, and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle , a nonfiction account of her family's attempts to eat locally.
In 2002, Florida voters enacted a state constitutional amendment requiring that the state establish a free voluntary pre-kindergarten (VPK) program for all four-year-old children by fall 2005. [8] Florida's program is the largest state-level preschool program in the nation. [ 8 ]
Barbara Bottner is an American author and artist who has published over fifty children’s books in all genres, [1] and an award-winning teacher of writing for children. She has written primetime comedy, feature scripts, short stories for national magazines, animated shorts, essays, book reviews and scholarly articles.
Barbara Robinson was born and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio, and had no brothers or sisters. [1] Her father died when she was three. Robinson's mother, a schoolteacher in Portsmouth for forty-nine years, got her interested in books, and she began writing very early. Robinson attended Allegheny College, where she received a bachelor's degree in ...
In addition to her work as an author, Vance holds degrees in English from Southern Methodist University and a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at Dallas, where she later taught. [11] [12] She has been involved in educational and literary communities, promoting literacy and creative expression among young readers. Vance ...
Barbara Louise Mertz (September 29, 1927 – August 8, 2013) was an American author who wrote under her own name as well as under the pseudonyms Elizabeth Peters and Barbara Michaels. In 1952, she received a PhD in Egyptology from the University of Chicago .
Barbara Francis Taylor Bowman (October 30, 1928 – November 4, 2024) was an American early childhood education expert/advocate, academic, and author. Her areas of expertise included early childhood care/education, educational equity for minority and low-income children, as well as intergenerational family support and roles. [ 1 ]