Else Holmelund Minarik
BornElse Holmelund
(1920-09-13)September 13, 1920
Fredericia, Denmark
DiedJuly 12, 2012(2012-07-12) (aged 91)
Sunset Beach, North Carolina, U.S.
EducationQueens College, City University of New York (BA)
Years active1957–2010

Else Holmelund Minarik (née Holmelund; September 13, 1920 – July 12, 2012) was a Danish-born American author of more than 40 children's books. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted for television.[1] Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting![2][3]

Biography

Born in Fredericia, Denmark, Minarik immigrated to the United States at the age of four with her family. By 1940, Else had married Walter Minarik, who died in 1963.[1] After graduating from Queens College, City University of New York (B.A., 1942), she became a journalist, for the Daily Sentinel newspaper of Rome, New York, during World War II. She subsequently lived on Long Island, where she was employed as a first-grade teacher for the Commack School District.[2] She later lived in West Nottingham, New Hampshire. Minarik married her second husband, Pulitzer-winning journalist Homer Bigart, in 1970;[1] after his death in 1991, she moved to Sunset Beach[3] in Brunswick County, North Carolina, where she continued writing longhand, as she always had.[4][5]

Minarik's last book, Little Bear and the Marco Polo, was published in 2010. After having suffered a heart attack at 91, she died at home from complications, on July 12, 2012.[2][6][7]

Selected bibliography

  1. Little Bear (1957)
  2. Father Bear Comes Home (1959)
  3. Little Bear's Friend (1960)
  4. Little Bear's Visit (1961)
  5. A Kiss for Little Bear (1968)
  6. Little Bear and the Marco Polo (2010) – illustrated by Dorothy Doubleday[2]
  • No Fighting, No Biting! (1958) – illustrated by Maurice Sendak
  • Cat and Dog (1960) – illustrated by Fritz Siebel (published with new illustrations by Bryan Langdo in 2005)
  • The Little Giant Girl and Elf Boy (1963) – illustrated by Garth Williams[8]
  • Percy and the Five Houses (1989) – illustrated by James Stevenson

References

  1. 1 2 3 Julia Eccleshare (July 19, 2012). "Else Holmelund Minarik obituary | Books | guardian.co.uk". London: Guardian. Retrieved July 19, 2012.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Shannon Maughan (July 13, 2012). "Else Holmelund Minarik". Publishers Weekly. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  3. 1 2 "Remembering "Little Bear" Author Else Holmelund Minarik". North Carolina Arts Council. July 14, 2009. Retrieved September 5, 2017.
  4. ↑ Engel, MJ (February 15, 2006). "'Little Bear' author creates in Calabash". The StarNews. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  5. ↑ "Author: Else Holmelund Minarik". Random House Group Limited. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  6. ↑ Fox, Margalit (July 13, 2012). "Else Holmelund Minarik, Author of Little Bear Books, Dies at 91". The New York Times. Retrieved August 13, 2012.
  7. ↑ "Minarik, Else Holmelund". Bookology Magazine. May 15, 2015. Retrieved December 25, 2015.
  8. ↑ The Little Giant Girl and the Elf Boy. Harper & Row. January 1963.
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