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Helen Hoover
American nature writer (1910-1984)
Helen Hoover was an American nature writer who wrote four popular adult books and three books for the juvenile market in the 1960s and 1970s.
She and her husband Adrian, an illustrator of her books, moved from Chicago to a remote cabin in northern Minnesota in 1954, which became the source of material for her books.
Early life and career
Hoover had an unconventional career for a woman.
Born January 20, 1910, in Greenville, Ohio, Hoover was the daughter of Thomas Franklin and Hannah Gomersall Blackburn.
Helen hoover biography
She attended Ohio University from 1927 to 1929, until her father died suddenly in 1929.[1] She and her mother moved to Chicago out of economic necessity, where Helen sought work as an addressograph operator and as a proofreader.
During World War II, she was able to get a job as an analytical chemist with Pittsburgh Testing Laboratory and also took night courses at De Paul University and the University of Chicago. Fol