Marian Hurd McNeely

Marian Kent Hurd McNeely (26 July 1877–8 December 1930) was an American children's book author. Her work Jumping-Off Place received a Newbery Honor in 1930.

Biography

Marian Kent Hurd was born in Dubuque, Iowa in 1877. She worked for a newspaper around the turn of the century, writing a column between 1903 and 1906, when she left for Italy for a year. She married Lee McNeely on May 4, 1910. They had four children. For two years they homesteaded at Rosebud Indian Reservation, which became the inspiration for The Jumping-Off Place.^[1]

Apart from her books, McNeely wrote short stories and poems which appeared in publications like St. Nicholas Magazine, Literary Digest, Ladies' Home Journal and the Saturday Review of Literature (A Ballade of Losers, a humorous poem about being an also-ran for the Newbery Medal).

She was killed on 8 December 1930 when she was hit by a car while crossing a street.^[2]

Bibliography

• 1905: Miss Billy
• 1909: When she came home from college
• 1928: Rusty Ruston: A story for brothers and sisters
• 1929: The Jumping-Off Place
• 1931: Winning Out
• 1932: The way to glory and other stories

Notes

1. ^ Lamberton Becker, May (1932). Under Twenty. Harcourt, Brace & World. pp. 384. ISBN 9781419165351. http://books.google.com/books?id=dynozjHEU7gC&pg=PA127&lpg=PA127&dq=Marian+Hurd+McNeely&source=bl&ots=Zgb8HUHzuV&sig=1Sh9WFFkRCg-wJDymYrLLzHvdnE&hl=en&ei=BZawS9e0DY75-AacufC5DQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CAsQ6AEwAjgK#v=onepage&q=Marian%20Hurd%20McNeely&f=false. Retrieved 29 March 2010. 
2. ^ Wall, Joseph Frazier; Federal Writers Project (1986). The WPA Guide to 1930s Iowa. University of Iowa Press. pp. 581. ISBN 9781587295706. http://books.google.com/books?id=My76xBkl6vAC&pg=PA251&dq=Marian+Hurd+McNeely&hl=en&ei=eZqwS6CjGIr1-Qa0nsHjBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFwQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=&f=false. Retrieved 29 March 2010. 

External links

• South Dakota History article on McNeely, with photograph

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