![]() Even before Tuck Everlasting, her previous five books, which included The Search for Delicious (1969), about a kingdomwide poll that threatens civil war, and Goody Hall (1971), about an actor who, as a tutor, stumbles on family secrets, showed her deft touch. ![]() However, when he wrote nothing more, she wrote and illustrated her own stories. Her first published work was as the illustrator of her husband’s story The Forty-Ninth Magician (1966). ![]() She graduated from Smith College, in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1954, having taken a degree in fine art in order to follow her childhood intention of becoming an illustrator, and soon afterwards married Samuel Babbitt. ![]() Natalie was born in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Ralph Moore, a personnel administrator, and Genevieve Converse, an amateur artist, and educated at Laurel school for girls in Cleveland. ![]()
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