Cooper who directed the film King Kong which was novelized by Delos. They had one daughter, Merian (later Merian Lovelace Kirchner January 18, 1931-September 25, 1997), named for Delos's friend Merian C. After 1928, they lived in New York permanently until their retirement in Claremont, California. Later, the couple divided their time between Minneapolis and New York (including Yonkers and Mount Vernon) for several years. They lived apart until 1919, however, due to Delos' military service in the First World War. Delos and Hart met in April 1917 and were married on Thanksgiving Day the same year. Hart married the writer Delos Lovelace when she was 25. While spending a year in Europe in 1914, she met Paolo Conte, an Italian musician (who later inspired the character Marco in Betsy and the Great World). She returned to the university and worked for the Minnesota Daily, but did not graduate.
It was while in California that she made her first short story sale – to the Los Angeles Times Magazine. She went on to the University of Minnesota but took a leave of absence to go to California to recover at her maternal grandmother's home from an appendectomy.
She was baptized in a Baptist church but joined the Episcopal church as a teenager. She wrote in her high school's essay contest during her junior and senior years. Maud reportedly started writing as soon as she could hold a pencil. Maud was the middle child her sisters were Kathleen (Julia in the Betsy-Tacy books) and Helen (book character, Margaret). Maud Palmer Hart was born in Mankato, Minnesota to Tom Hart, a shoe store owner, and his wife, Stella (née Palmer). "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Childhood home of Maud Hart Lovelace, now a museum, at 333 Center Street, Mankato, Minnesota “Slipping into a Betsy book is like slipping into a favorite pair of well-worn slippers: It’s always a pleasure to live in Betsy’s world for a little while, to experience her simple joys, but also her (thankfully short-lived) sorrows.” - Meg Cabot “There are three authors whose body of work I have re-read more than once over my adult life: Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, and Maud Hart Lovelace.” - Anna Quindlen “I re-read these books every year, marveling at how a world so quaint - Shirtwaists! Pompadours! Merry Widow hats! - can feature a heroine who is undeniably modern.” - Laura Lippman Featuring a foreword by New York Times bestselling author Laura Lippman and the original cover art from Heaven to Betsy.
These two books in Maud Hart Lovelace’s beloved Betsy-Tacy series: Heaven to Betsy and Betsy in Spite of Herself see Betsy and Tacy start high school in Deep Valley, Minnesota. That’s how it was for me with Betsy-Tacy.” -Judy Blume “Some characters become your friends for life.
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