Lois Lenski

Lois Lenski was a popular and prolific writer of childrens and young adult fiction.

Lois Lenski was born in Springfield, Ohio on October 14, 1893. She was the fourth of five children born to Richard C. H. Lenski, a Prussianborn Lutheran clergyman and theologian, and Marietta Young Lenski, a Franklin County, Ohio native, who was a schoolteacher before her marriage. When Lois was six, her family moved to the small town of Anna, Ohio, west of Springfield, where Richard Lenski was called to be a pastor . For the next twelve years, Lenskis life centered around her schooling and family activities, including drawing, photography, reading, sewing, and gardening . Journey into Childhood, Lenskis autobiography, published in 1972, documents her memories of her early life in a small Midwestern rural community at the turn of the century. Of that life, Lenski stated, Life in a small town in Ohio before the First World War was simple, sincere and wholesome I am glad to have been a child in the horseandbuggy days, and to have known and felt the joys of real peace and security.

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