Hoffine, Lyle

Lyla Hoffine was born in 1897 near Highland, Wisconsin and died in 1984 in Tucson, Arizona. She had written six children's books, and "because of her skills as a writer of children's books," as well as those in researching "Indian lore, she was asked to participate in the Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction at Purdue University, Lafayette, IN."

Source: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.

From the guide to the Lyla Hoffine Collection, 1957-1962, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])