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Ruth Sawyer
Birth at
5 August 1880
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Ruth Sawyer is a popular American children's writer, folklorist and storyteller. One of her most famous books is the story “Roller skates” in 1937, which received the John Newbury medal. She was born on August 5, 1880 in Boston, in a wealthy family. Since childhood, she listened to the stories of her Irish nanny, which awakened in her very love of storytelling. Educated as a kindergarten teacher, Ruth traveled to Cuba in 1900 to help establish preschool education. This work in Cuba helped Sawyer
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Ruth Sawyer is a popular American children's writer, folklorist and storyteller. One of her most famous books is the story “Roller skates” in 1937, which received the John Newbury medal.
She was born on August 5, 1880 in Boston, in a wealthy family. Since childhood, she listened to the stories of her Irish nanny, which awakened in her very love of storytelling. Educated as a kindergarten teacher, Ruth traveled to Cuba in 1900 to help establish preschool education. This work in Cuba helped Sawyer get a scholarship to Columbia University, and on her return to the US, she studied folklore and storytelling there. Since 1904, she worked in the New York school system, in every possible way contributed to the popularization of storytelling and folklore, in particular, Irish, taught this to children, traveled around the country with lectures, wrote articles in newspapers and magazines. Twice she was in Ireland, where she collected fairy tales and myths, in 1931 she visited Spain, where she also collected rich folklore material.
This helped her in writing her books. Back in 1915, she published her first adult novel, The Primrose Ring, in the next – the first book for children – The Road to Christmas. In total, during her long career, the writer has released several dozen books - novels, stories, short stories.
With time and age, Sawyer never stopped writing, traveling or telling stories. When she was 81, she went to Austria to study local legends. Ruth died on June 3, 1970 at the age of 89.