Betty Miles Papers 1958-1995

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Betty Miles Papers 1958-1995

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The collection contains written production materials for 19 titles, and includes typescripts, some corrected, carbon, or photocopied, correspondence, reviews, corrected galley proofs, front matter holographs, page proofs, notes, color illustrations, a dummy, promotional drafts, disks, floppy disks, clippings, layouts and layout notes, and miscellaneous material.

128 folders

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections

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Miles, Betty, 1910-1992

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Betty Miles was born in Chicago on May 16, 1928, but for her first six years was raised in Baghdad, Iraq, by her missionary parents. Following college she worked as an assistant teacher at a progressive elementary school. Trying to find suitable books to read to the children led her to begin writing her own books, which in turn led to her career as an author or children's books. She emphasizes that she writes about what interests her; many of her books deal with real-life issues, su...