Betsy Byars, the author of “The Summer of the Swans” and other prizewinning works of children’s literature drawn from the real world, with heroes and heroines who survive their lonely, sometimes ...

Ms. Byars’s award-winning children’s books, including “The Summer of the Swans” and “The Night Swimmers,” often dealt with abandonment. By Daniel E. Slotnik Betsy Byars, who drew from life to write ...

In a boxed review, PW called this a "jewel-like novel. In tightly constructed scenes, the author slowly and fluidly unspools the small revelations that aid in the narrator's understanding of the [late ...

The South Carolina State Library’s Center for the Book has selected former Anderson resident Betsy Byars’ “Dog Diaries: Secret Writings of the WOOF Society” to represent the state at the 2016 National ...

Seneca - Betsy Cromer Byars, 91, loving wife of 69 years to Edward Ford Byars, died peacefully on February 26, 2020 in Seneca, SC. She was the daughter of George Guy Cromer and Nan Aline Rugheimer ...

Newbery winner Byars and her two daughters, with whom she collaborated on My Dog, My Hero, offer a collection of fictional students' responses to their teacher's request for stories about times that ...