![]() ![]() ![]() When she was five years old, she found a friend for life when a little girl named Bic moved in just across the street. She lived with her parents and two sisters in a modest home at the foot of a big hill in Mankato. This month in our Minnesota Century series, the story of a woman who had mixed success as a novelist but eventually found her voice in the character of Betsy, whose antics and adventures mirrored Maud's real-life childhood in Mankato at the turn of the century.ĭid not have an extraordinary childhood. After all, who hasn't heard of "The Great Gatsby" and Lewis's "Main Street," or the series of stories written by Ingalls Wilder that immortalized her frontier life in the popular television series "Little House on the Prairie." With all this home-grown literary success, it is perhaps surprising that after selling nearly a million children's books based on two young heroines named Betsy and Tacy, writer Maud Hart Lovelace does not share in the same universal fame. ![]() Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis and Laura Ingalls Wilder. When asked to name some of the state's best-known authors of the early 1900s, most Minnesotans will name F. ![]()
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