Betsy Byars
Betsy Byars was an American author of children's books. Her novel Summer of the Swans won the 1971 Newbery Medal. She has also received a National Book Award for Young People's Literature for The Night Swimmers (1980) and an Edgar Award for Wanted ... Mud Blossom (1991). Betsy Byars, American author and academic (d. 2020)
7 August 1928
Born on the same birth date (7 August 1928): James Randi • Owen Luder
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