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Noll, Ingrid
The German author Ingrid Noll was born in Shanghai. Her parents had left Hessen for China where her father, a physician, was running a clinic. Ingrid and her three siblings were taught at home, and she grew up in an environment that inspired story telling including a large garden, many animals, her own fertile imagination and the family library. The Nolls returned to Germany when the Communists...
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Barr, Nevada
Nevada Barr is an author and artist born in Yerington, Nevada. In 1954, she moved with her family to Susanville in California where she grew up. Her parents ran a small airfield – both her parents as well as her sister were pilots – and Nevada Barr passed her flying certificate as a teenager. She attended Mercy High School at Red Bluff until 1969, and California Polytechnic State University in San...
