1. Elizabeth "Betty" Lowenthal Levin was an American college professor and a writer who specialized in fiction for young readers.
14 Facts About Betty Levin
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Betty Levin was co-founder of the Simmons College Center for the Study of Children's Literature, and of Children's Literature New England.
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Betty Levin was a sheep farmer, and bred border collies.
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Betty Levin's father was an attorney; her mother was a music educator who worked on refugee resettlement during and after World War II.
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Betty Levin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Rochester in 1949, and a master's degree from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1951.
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Betty Levin was a member of the faculty at Simmons College, and co-founded the Center for the Study of Children's Literature there.
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Betty Levin helped to found Children's Literature New England, a non-profit organization.
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Betty Levin ran a sheep farm in Lincoln, Massachusetts, and was a founding member of the New England Border Collie Association.
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Betty Levin was an active member of the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
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Betty Levin began writing children's books after a creative writing fellowship at the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College from 1968 to 1970.
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Betty Levin published more than two dozen books for children, often set in New England, and sometimes with time-travel themes.
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Betty Levin received the Hope Sweetser Dean Award in 2001, and the Judy Lopez Memorial Children's Book Award in 1989.
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Betty Levin's husband died in 1987, and one of her daughters died in 2016.
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Betty Levin died in July 2022, at the age of 94, in Lincoln, Massachusetts.