Brink, Carol Ryrie (1895–1981)

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Brink, Carol Ryrie (1895–1981)

American children's writer and novelist. Born Carol Ryrie, Dec 28, 1895, in Moscow, Idaho; died Aug 15, 1981, in La Jolla, California; dau. of Alexander (1st mayor of Moscow, Idaho) and Henrietta (Watkins) Ryrie; attended University of Idaho, 1914–17; University of California at Berkeley, BA, 1918; married Raymond Woodward Brink (mathematics professor), July 12, 1918 (died); children: David Ryrie, Nora Caroline Brink Hunter.

Won the Newbery Medal (1936) and Lewis Carroll Shelf Award (1959) for Caddie Woodlawn; other books include Anything Can Happen on the River (1934), Lad with a Whistle (1941), The Headland (1956), The Pink Motel (1959) Snow in the River (1966), The Bad Times of Irma Baumlein (1972) and Four Girls on a Homestead (1978).

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