Baron, Virginia Olsen

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Virginia Olsen Baron was born in 1931 in Wilkes-Barre, PA. She attended Beaver College (now Arcadia University) from 1949-1951. In addition to being a writer and editor of poetry, Baron has also been chairman of the Children's Program series at Columbia University (1956-1958), president of Greenhouse Nursery School (1957-1958), a radio producer (1960-1961), publicity director for a publisher (1962-1964), and member of the board of directors of Columbia Press beginning in 1963.

From the guide to the Virginia Olsen Baron papers, 1968-1969, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc])

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creatorOf McCully, Emily Arnold. Here I am : an anthology of poems written by young people in some of America's minority groups : production material, 1969. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
referencedIn Poetry mss., 1954-2002 Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
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