Betsy Byars

Betsy Cromer Byars was born August 7, 1928, in Charlotte, North Carolina to George Guy, a cotton mill executive, and Nan (née Rugheimer) Cromer, a homemaker. Betsy and Ed Byars are both licensed aircraft pilots and lived on an airstrip in Seneca, South Carolina, the bottom floor of their house being a hangar. Byars moved back to Seneca in 1980 and retired in 1990. She died in Seneca on February 26, 2020. ==Works==

• 1962 Clementine • 1965 The Dancing Camel • 1966 Rama, the Gypsy Cat • 1967 The Groober • 1968 The Midnight Fox • 1970 Summer of the Swans • 1971 Go and Hush the Baby • 1972 The House of Wings • 1973 The Eighteenth Emergency —winner of the Dorothy Canfield Fisher Children's Book Award • 1974 After the Goat Man • 1975 The Lace Snail • 1976 The TV Kid • 1977 The Pinballs • 1978 The Cartoonist • 1978 The Winged Colt of Casa Mia • 1979 Good-bye, Chicken Little • 1979 Trouble River • 1980 The Night Swimmers —National Book Award, Children's Fiction • 1981 The Cybil War • 1982 The Animal, The Vegetable, and John D. Jones • 1982 The Two-Thousand-Pound Goldfish • 1983 The Glory Girl • 1984 The Computer Nut • 1985 Cracker Jackson • 1991 The Seven Treasure Hunts • 1992 Coast to Coast • 1993 McMummy • 1995 Growing Up Stories • 1996 The Joy Boys • 1996 Tornado (illustrated by Doron Ben-Ami) • 2000 Me Tarzan • 2002 Keeper of the Doves • 2004 Top Teen Stories (contribution) Series ;Ant • 1996 My Brother, Ant • 1997 Ant Plays Bear ;Bingo Brown • 1988 The Burning Questions of Bingo Brown • 1991 Bingo Brown and the Language of Love • 1992 Bingo Brown, Gypsy Lover • 1992 ''Bingo Brown's Guide to Romance'' ;Boo • 2006 ''Boo's Dinosaur'' • 2009 ''Boo's Surprise'' ;Blossom Family • 1986 The Not-Just-Anybody Family • 1986 The Blossoms Meet the Vulture Lady • 1987 The Blossoms and the Green Phantom • 1987 A Blossom Promise • 1991 Wanted...Mud Blossom ;Golly Sisters • 1985 The Golly Sisters Go West • 1990 Hooray for the Golly Sisters • 1994 The Golly Sisters Ride Again ;Herculeah Jones • 1994 The Dark Stairs • 1995 Tarot Says Beware • 1996 Dead Letter • 1997 ''Death's Door'' • 1998 Disappearing Acts • 2006 King of Murder • 2006 The Black Tower Collaborations with daughters Betsy Duffey and Laurie Myers • 2000 My Dog, My Hero • 2004 The SOS File • 2007 Dog Diaries • 2010 Cat Diaries Memoir • 1991 The Moon and I Short stories • Look Back at the Sea ==References==