Foster, Doris Van Liew

Doris Foster Van Liew was born November 9, 1899 in Bellaire, MI. For most of her career she was a supervisor and teacher for the Indianapolis Day Nursery. She once stated: "Living with children informally, such as a day nursery, was conducive to my attempting not to write a juvenile book but rather to talk to children. I was fortunate to be able to listen when at rare moments they revealed glimpses only pertinent to childhood." She retired in 1965 and died in 1993.

From the guide to the Doris Van Liew Foster Papers, 1957, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])