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Barbara Robinson
Born
in Portsmouth, Ohio, The United StatesOctober 24,
Died
July 09,
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Genre
Children's Books
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I grew up in a southern Ohio river town -- Portsmouth -- and that small town atmosphere has affected most of my writing.
My mother, widowed when I was three years old, taught school for forty-nine years in that same small town, and her major (indeed, only) extravagance was books. I grew up with, and quickly adopted, the notion that reading was the only way to fill up every scrap of loose time you could snatch.
I had the benefit, as well, of a wide variety of aunts and uncles and cousins, plus the extended family so common to small town life -- the neighbors, friends, teachers, bus drivers, mailmen, local heroes and local neâer-do-wells, and even a local blacksmithgreat stuff to feed the imagination.
I began writing very early -- poems, plI grew up in a southern Ohio river town -- Portsmouth -- and that small town atmosphere has
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Barbara Robinson (author)
American writer
Barbara Robinson (October 24, – July 9, ) was an American author and writer of the children's books The Best Christmas Pageant Ever () and The Best School Year Ever ().[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Barbara Robinson was born and raised in Portsmouth, Ohio, and had no brothers or sisters.[1] Her father died when she was three. Robinson's mother, a schoolteacher in Portsmouth for forty-nine years, got her interested in books, and she began writing very early. Robinson attended Allegheny College, where she received a bachelor's degree in theater.[3]
In addition to her children's books, Robinson wrote many short stories in publications such as McCall's, Redbook and Ladies Home Journal, and has some books of poetry.
Robinson lived in Berwyn, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. She died July 9, , at her home in Berwyn. She was 85 and had cancer. Robinson had two daughters with her husband
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Barbara Robinson dies at 85; wrote ‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’
Barbara Robinson, a children’s author who spun an endearing holiday tale of six rowdy siblings who take over a church pageant and learn to celebrate Christmas, died July 9 at her home in Berwyn, Pa. She was 85 and had cancer.
Her daughter, Marjorie Pinto-Leite, confirmed her death.
Robinson originally wrote “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” as a short story for McCall’s magazine. She expanded it into a novel, which sold more than million copies. Building on the novel’s popularity, she wrote a screenplay for a TV movie utgåva starring Loretta Swit and a scen adaptation that has become a Christmastime classic for community theaters.
The novel’s comic tone was evident in the opening lines: “The Herdmans were absolutely the worst kids in the history of the world. They lied and stole and smoked cigars (even the girls) and talked dirty and hit little kids and cussed their teachers and took the name of the Lord in v