![]() ![]() She was one of the Newbery Medal runners-up twice, for Have You Seen Tom Thumb? in 1943 and for Better Known as Johnny Appleseed in 1951. Her first book was published in 1934 ( Lucinda, A Little Girl of 1860) and in 1938 she left her position to write full-time. From 1926 she was a librarian at the Indianapolis Public Library. Hunt studied at DePauw University in Greencastle from 1910 to 1912 and returned to school in 1923 for a year at Western Reserve University Library School in Cleveland. She and her mother then lived in Indianapolis. She was raised in Greencastle and, from age ten until her physician father died, in Plainfield (a center of Indiana Quaker activity). Hunt was born in Coatesville, Indiana, to Quaker parents. ![]() Mabel Leigh Hunt (Novem– September 3, 1971) was an American writer of children's books. ![]()
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