Betsy Byars was born Betsy Cromer on August 7, 1928, in Charlotte, North Carolina. Her parents, George Guy Cromer, an executive with a cotton mill, and Nan Rugheimer Cromer, a homemaker, were both avid readers who encouraged their daughter to read. Byars had no interest in writing, however, and none of her teachers praised her writing abilities. She attended Furman College as a math major from 1946 to 1948, and then transferred to Queens College in Charlotte, where she was an English major and... więcej

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