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Pauline Leader

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(1908 - 2001)

Pauline Leader was a poet, short story writer and novelist.

Following a long illness, she became deaf at the age of 12. As a teenager, she ran away to New York City. There she found work in factories and sweatshops and spent time in a home for wayward girls. In the midst of hardships, she found solace in her writing.



Bibliography

A Room for the Night (1946)

A book of reminiscences of the author’s childhood in Vermont.

Author(s): Pauline Leader
Illustrator(s): Garth Williams

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