Hazel Hutchins Wilson
Hazel Hutchins Wilson was an American author of children's books who turned to writing after a career as a school and university librarian.Biography
Born in Portland, Maine, she attended Bates College in Lewiston, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1919. In 1920 she received a Bachelor of Science degree in library science from Simmons College in Boston.
Wilson's library career began in a high school in Portland and continued at Northeast Missouri State Teacher's College in Kirksville. Thereafter, she became head of the circulation department for the American Library in Paris, France, ; librarian at Bradford Academy, in Bradford, Massachusetts ; supervisor of school libraries in Denver, and lecturer at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.. She helped found the Children's Book Guild of Washington and was at times its president, and she held memberships in the American Newspaper Women's Club and Women in Communications.
Topics for her books ranged from historical figures like George Washington to events in Maine to the antics of a 10-year old named Herbert. Awards for her published work included an Ohioana Award for Island Summer, a Boys Clubs of America Junior Book Award for Thad Owen, a New York Herald Spring Book Festival Honor Book Award for Herbert, and an Edison Award in 1955 for His Indian Brother. She also wrote monthly book reviews for the Washington Evening Star.
Wilson married William Jerome Wilson in 1930, and they had one child, Jerome Linwood Wilson. William Wilson died in 1963.
