April 23, 2010

When her husband died in 1897, Bernie Babcock decided she could support herself and five children with her writing. During the next sixty-five years, she authored more than forty popular novels and numerous other pieces. In 1903, she became the first Arkansas woman to be included in Authors and Writers Who’s Who. She was also the first president of the Arkansas branch of the National League of American Pen Women. In the early 1950s, she retired to a small home atop Petit Jean Mountain, where she died in 1962. She is shown here as a young woman in the early 1900s.

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