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Maud Hart Lovelace

Biographical Notes

Date of birth: April 25, 1892, Mankato, Minnesota
Date of death: March 11, 1980, Claremont, California

Maud Hart Lovelace Maud Palmer Hart Lovelace. Author. At age ten, a booklet of her poems was printed, and by age eighteen she had sold her first short story, for ten dollars, to the Los Angeles Times (1911). Attended University of Minnesota, 1910-12. Wrote short stories and novels. Daughter Merian born in 1931. Especially noted for her Betsy-Tacy series of ten books for young readers, set in early-twentieth-century Mankato, Minnesota, published from 1940 to 1955. Author of Early Candlelight (1929), a novel with a Fort Snelling, Minnesota, setting. Coauthor with husband Delos W. Lovelace of the book One Stayed at Welcome (1934). One wing of the Minnesota Valley Regional Library in Mankato was named for her in 1977. A mural (unveiled in 1980) depicts her life in Mankato. The Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award for children's books was established in 1979 by the Mankato Friends of the Library association.

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Maud Hart Lovelace book cover

Additional Resources

Sources used to prepare this author entry

The following bibliography may include links to Web sites that are no longer operable or have changed location. The sources are shown as they existed in the fall of 1999 when the entries were compiled.
  • Alumni Weekly. Aug. 1926, Vol. 26, no. 2, p. 35.
  • Christianson, Theodore. Minnesota: The Land of Sky-tinted Waters: A History of the State and its People. Chicago: American Historical Society, 1935.
  • Contemporary Authors. Vol. 7-8. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1963.
  • Contemporary Authors. Vol. 104. Detroit: Gale Research Co., 1982.
  • Davis-Kay, Jennifer. "The Betsy-Tacy Society Home Page." Online. Accessed 27 Dec. 1999. http://www.betsy-tacysociety.org/mhl.htm
  • Deike, Evelyn. "Maud Hart Lovelace: The Woman and Her Work." Masters' Thesis, University of Minnesota, 1967.
  • Howes, Durward. ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: Richard Blank Publishing Co., 1935.
  • Howes, Durward, ed. American Women. Los Angeles, Calif: American Publications Inc., 1939.
  • "Maud Hart Lovelace Book Award." Online. Accessed 27 Dec. 1999. http://www.isd77.k12.mn.us/lovelace/lovelace.html
  • Minneapolis Star, 16 Mar. 1980, p. 1A.
  • Minneapolis Tribune, 12 Mar. 1980, p. 2B.
  • Minnesota Journal of Education. Mar. 1933, Vol. 13, no. 3, p. 86. South St. Paul: Minnesota Education Association, 1933.
  • Richards, Carmen. Minnesota Writers. Minneapolis: T. S. Denison, 1961.
  • Richards, Carmen. Minnesota Writes. Minneapolis: Lund Press, 1945.
  • Stuhler, Barbara, and Gretchen Kreuter, eds. Women of Minnesota. St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 1977.
  • Whalen, Sharla. "Maud Hart Lovelace." Online. Accessed 27 Dec. 1999. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/Lights/4859/maudbiosharla.html
  • Who's Who in America: 1934-35. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Company, 1935
  • Who's Who of American Women, 1970-71. Chicago: A. N. Marquis Co., 1969.
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