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Barbara Smucker - The Author - Underground to Canada

Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, 1915 – J) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including Underground to Canada (1977) which is still widely studied in Canadian schools and Days of Terror (1979) which won the Canada Council Children.


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Barbara Smucker, née Claasen, children's author (b at Newton, Ks 1 Sept 1915; d at Bluffton, Ohio, 29 July 2003). A New Order Mennonite, Smucker graduated in journalism from Kansas State University (1936) and came to Canada in 1969. She worked as a reporter, teacher and librarian.

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  • BLUFFTON, Ohio — Barbara Claassen Smucker, the author of 14 wel-regarded books for children, died July 29 in Bluffton. She was 87. One of Smucker's books, Underground to Canada, was named one of the 50 best books of all time in Canada.
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    Barbara Claassen Smucker: children's fiction writer and librarian; born 1 September 1915 in Newton, Kansas, to Cornelius W. (a banker) and Addie (Lander) Claassen, oldest child, only daughter, along with three younger brothers, Lander, Walter, and Morris.

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  • Barbara Smucker - Penguin Random House

    Smucker, Barbara Claassen was born on September 1, 1915 in Newton, Kansas, United States. Dual citizen United States and Canada. Daughter of Cornelius Walter and Addie (Lander) Claassen.

    Barbara Smucker - The Author - Underground to Canada

    Barbara Smucker was born in Newton, Kansas, in 1915 where she also graduated from Kansas State University in 1936 with a degree in journalism. It was while working as a journalist that she met her husband Donovan Smucker, a Mennonite minister from Ohio.
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  • Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, 1915 – J) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993.
  • Barbara Claassen Smucker (September 1, 1915 – J) was an American writer, primarily of children's fiction, who lived in Canada from 1969 to 1993.
  • Barbara Smucker's time-shift fantasies combined historical and contemporary conflicts. In White Mist (1985) 2 teenagers learn about ecological exploitation and the dispossession of native peoples; in Garth and the Mermaid (1992), a boy copes with his family problems after encountering parallel ones in the 14th century.

  • Toggle share options The book, based in part on stories Smucker heard as a child from a former slave, was noted for its scrupulous documentation and emphasis on little-known slave histories. "Barbara Smucker has impeccable civil rights credentials," a New York Times reviewer wrote in 1978. "[This] well-wrought book should be read by all children.".
  • Smucker, Barbara Claassen (1915-2003) - GAMEO Barbara Claassen Smucker: children's fiction writer and librarian; born 1 September 1915 in Newton, Kansas, to Cornelius W. (a banker) and Addie (Lander) Claassen, oldest child, only daughter, along with three younger brothers, Lander, Walter, and Morris. She married Donovan Smucker, college professor and minister, on 21 January 1939. They had.
  • Barbara Smucker - Wikipedia Barbara Claassen Smucker, American former librarian, writer. Recipient prizes Canada Council, 1980, Ruth Schwartz Foundation, 1980, Distinguished Service award Kansas State University, 1980, Brotherhood award National Conference of Christians and Jews, 1980; $2000 Vicki Metcalf prize for outstanding contribution to Canada children's literature Canada Authors Association, 1988, Kitchener award.
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  • Smucker, Barbara Claassen (1915-2003) - MLA Biograph Wiki

      Children's author and librarian Barbara Classen Smucker was born September 1, 1915 in Newton, Kansas. Barbara began writing in elementary school and would later go on to earn a degree in journalism from Kansas State University in 1936.