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Carol Ryrie Brink
Menomonie, WI Born: 1895 Died: 1981 Link to Wikipedia Page Listen to an excerpt from Caddie Woodlawn or a story about Carol Ryrie Brink on MPR |
Biography:
Caroline Ryrie was the daughter of a Scots immigrant who became the first mayor of the town of Moscow, Idaho, and his wife, the daughter of a pioneer medical doctor. Early orphaned, Carol, as she was called, was reared by her maternal grandmother Caroline Augusta Woodhouse Watkins and her two maiden aunts; they were all skilled and descriptive storytellers, and in particular, Mrs. Watkins's stories about growing up in the Wisconsin woods were the basis of a number of books and short stories, including the 1935 Newbery Award winning work of children's fiction Caddie Woodlawn. In a preface to the later edition of Caddie Woodlawn, she said the books were partly based on the life of her grandmother, Caddie Woodhouse Watkins (1853–1940), and her siblings: older sister Clara, older brother Tom, younger brother Warren, younger sisters Hetty and Minnie, and Baby Joe.The house where Caddie lived is now a historical site, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Carol Ryrie attended the University of Idaho but took her bachelor's degree from Berkeley in 1918. Soon after she married; and after living in Europe for a time, she subsequently moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where her husband taught mathematics at the University of Minnesota. While raising two children, Mrs. Brink rediscovered her affinity for writing stories, first found during high school and in college, and was soon writing articles and short stories for local publications. She soon graduated to national publications and then started writing book-length works of fiction, for both adults and children. She was the author of three plays (including one based on the book Caddie Woodlawn) and twenty-seven novels.
She is the grandmother of production designer Clark Hunter and great-grandmother of actor Andrew Eiden, his sister Emily Eiden, an actress, singer Alex Hunter and actress Nora Hunter.
(From http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109539/bio)
Works by Carol Ryrie Brink:
Novels
Caroline Ryrie was the daughter of a Scots immigrant who became the first mayor of the town of Moscow, Idaho, and his wife, the daughter of a pioneer medical doctor. Early orphaned, Carol, as she was called, was reared by her maternal grandmother Caroline Augusta Woodhouse Watkins and her two maiden aunts; they were all skilled and descriptive storytellers, and in particular, Mrs. Watkins's stories about growing up in the Wisconsin woods were the basis of a number of books and short stories, including the 1935 Newbery Award winning work of children's fiction Caddie Woodlawn. In a preface to the later edition of Caddie Woodlawn, she said the books were partly based on the life of her grandmother, Caddie Woodhouse Watkins (1853–1940), and her siblings: older sister Clara, older brother Tom, younger brother Warren, younger sisters Hetty and Minnie, and Baby Joe.The house where Caddie lived is now a historical site, about 12 miles (19 km) south of Menomonie, Wisconsin.
Carol Ryrie attended the University of Idaho but took her bachelor's degree from Berkeley in 1918. Soon after she married; and after living in Europe for a time, she subsequently moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, where her husband taught mathematics at the University of Minnesota. While raising two children, Mrs. Brink rediscovered her affinity for writing stories, first found during high school and in college, and was soon writing articles and short stories for local publications. She soon graduated to national publications and then started writing book-length works of fiction, for both adults and children. She was the author of three plays (including one based on the book Caddie Woodlawn) and twenty-seven novels.
She is the grandmother of production designer Clark Hunter and great-grandmother of actor Andrew Eiden, his sister Emily Eiden, an actress, singer Alex Hunter and actress Nora Hunter.
(From http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0109539/bio)
Works by Carol Ryrie Brink:
Novels
- 1934 Anything Can Happen on the River
- 1935 Caddie Woodlawn
- 1936 Mademoiselle Misfortune
- 1937 Baby Island
- 1937 Goody O'Grumpity
- 1939 All Over Town
- 1939 Magical Melons (Note: Magical Melons is now published as "Caddie Woodlawn's Family.")
- 1941 Lad with a Whistle
- 1944 Buffalo Coat
- 1945 Narcissa Whitman
- 1945 Minty et Compagnie
- 1946 Lafayette
- 1947 Harps in the Wind
- 1951 Stopover
- 1952 Family Grandstand
- 1953 The Highly Trained Dogs of Professor Petit
- 1955 The Headland
- 1956 Family Sabbatical
- 1959 The Pink Motel
- 1959 Strangers in the Forest
- 1961 The Twin Cities
- 1962 Chateau Saint Barnabe
- 1964 Snow in the River
- 1966 Andy Buckram's Tin Men
- 1968 Two Are Better Than One
- 1968 Winter Cottage
- 1972 The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein [Irma's Big Lie]
- 1974 Louly
- 1976 The Bellini Look
- 1977 Four Girls on a Homestead
- 1928 The Cupboard Was Bare
- 1945 Caddie Woodlawn
