![]() ![]() The novel received high critical acclaim, winning the Follett Award and being named the sole Newbery honor book of 1965 by the American Library Association. Hunt's first novel, Across Five Aprils, was published when she was fifty-seven, after she had worked many years at her writing and accumulated many rejection slips. ![]() In her later years, she retired and moved to Florida. For many years, Hunt taught French and English in Illinois public schools she taught psychology briefly at the University of South Dakota. Her grandfather told many stories which later influenced her writing. ![]() After her father died when she was seven, Hunt lived with her grandparents for five years. Irene Hunt grew up on the farm in southern Illinois that provided the setting for her Civil War novel, Across Five Aprils (1964). Born, Pontiac, Illinois died August 1979ĭaughter of Franklin P. ![]()
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