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Biography:
Beverly Butler Olsen was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was a native of Milwaukee, and was a long time resident of Rhinelander.
She became a promising young author when she began writing stories at the age of 14. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories. In 1954, she graduated cum laude from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee where she wrote her first young novel, Song of the Voyager which later won Dodd Mead's Seventeenth Summer Literary Competition. Beverly earned her M.A. Degree from Marquette University in 1961 and she returned to Mount Mary in 1962 to teach writing there until 1974.
Beverly moved to Sun Prairie before marrying fellow Wisconsin author, Theodore Victor (T.V.) Olsen, and moving to Rhinelander in 1976. Beverly continued writing for most of her life with most of her stories targeting young readers. She enjoyed the challenges of writing a "story good enough to keep the interest of such a discerning and choosy group of readers." Throughout her life, Beverly never allowed her blindness to hinder her. She had her brother teach her how to ride a bike and even drive a car down their back alley. She used her other senses and her brilliant imagination to create her vivid stories which are still enjoyed by her loyal readers today.
Works by Beverly Butler:
Beverly Butler Olsen was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was a native of Milwaukee, and was a long time resident of Rhinelander.
She became a promising young author when she began writing stories at the age of 14. Beverly had planned to be an artist, but an impending blindness impelled her to learn typing in order to rejoin her high school class. For practice, she began typing remembered stories which led to her inventing stories. In 1954, she graduated cum laude from Mount Mary College in Milwaukee where she wrote her first young novel, Song of the Voyager which later won Dodd Mead's Seventeenth Summer Literary Competition. Beverly earned her M.A. Degree from Marquette University in 1961 and she returned to Mount Mary in 1962 to teach writing there until 1974.
Beverly moved to Sun Prairie before marrying fellow Wisconsin author, Theodore Victor (T.V.) Olsen, and moving to Rhinelander in 1976. Beverly continued writing for most of her life with most of her stories targeting young readers. She enjoyed the challenges of writing a "story good enough to keep the interest of such a discerning and choosy group of readers." Throughout her life, Beverly never allowed her blindness to hinder her. She had her brother teach her how to ride a bike and even drive a car down their back alley. She used her other senses and her brilliant imagination to create her vivid stories which are still enjoyed by her loyal readers today.
Works by Beverly Butler:
- Light a Single Candle, published 1962
- Ghost Cat, published 1984
- My Sister's Keeper, published 1980
- Gift of Gold, published 1972
- Baleful Beasts and Eerie Creatures, published 1976
- Song of the Voyageur, published 1955
- Maggie by My Side, published 1988
- Witch's Fire, published 1993
- Meant To Be, published 2011
- The Silver Key, published 1961
- Feather in the Wind, published 1965
- A Girl Named Wendy, published 1976
- Magnolia Plantation, published 1981
- The Wind and Me, published 1971
- Captive Thunder, published 1969
- Of Ships and Stars: Maritime Heritage and the Founding of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, published 1999
- The lion and the otter
- Gift of Gold
