KATHRYN SWARTHOUT

Kathryn SwarthoutKathryn Swarthout, the widow of Glendon and mother of Miles, was a former elementary school teacher for five years at Red Cedar School in East Lansing, Michigan, after earning her Master's in Education at   Michigan State University, and B. A. in English from the University of Michigan.

She co-wrote six juvenile novels with her husband and a number of them have been published overseas.  Kathryn is also a columnist for Woman's Day Magazine with her free-form poetry, Lifesavors, which has been running in the magazine for over twenty years. Some of these columns  were published in a book of the same title by Doubleday in 1982.

In 1962, Glendon and Kathryn established the Swarthout Writing Prizes at Arizona State University, administered by the English Department in Tempe.  Forty years old now, these six prizes in both poetry and fiction (with a current top prize of $2700 in each category), have grown until they now rank among the top five awards financially for undergraduate and graduate writing programs at all the colleges and universities in America.


Lifesavors

Doubleday, 1982   ISBN  0-385-17275-3

a collection of Kathryn Swarthout's favorite free-form illustrated poems from a dozen years worth of columns running in Woman's Day Magazine.

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