Cynthia Rylant Collection 1985-1988.
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Rylant, Cynthia
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Cynthia Rylant was born June 6, 1954 in Hopewell, Virginia. She graduated from Morris Harvey College in 1975 and later received a master's degree from Marshall University in 1976 and a MLS from Kent State University in 1982. Cynthia Rylant worked as a part-time English instructor, children's librarian, and part-time lecturer before becoming a full-time writer. In 1982, she published her first picture book When I Was Young in the Mountains. The story drew on her own childhood in West Virginia wit...