Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Biography

This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Night Cry.

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Biography

This Study Guide consists of approximately 10 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more - everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Night Cry.
This section contains 411 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Night Cry Short Guide

Phyllis Reynolds Naylor was born January 4, 1933, in Anderson, Indiana, the daughter of Eugene S. and Lura Schield Reynolds. Her midwestern upbringing and summer visits to her grandparents in rural Maryland have provided colorful backdrops for many of her stories. As a young girl during the depression years, this prolific writer wrote stories on the blank side of used paper she found in the trash can. At the age of sixteen, Naylor was asked by a former teacher to write a story for a Sunday School paper, and she discovered she could be paid for doing what she loved best. By the time she attended college, she earned a large part of her tuition money by selling her writing to magazines. To date she has written some two thousand magazine stories and articles. Between graduating from Joliet Junior College in 1953 and obtaining a psychology degree...

(read more)

This section contains 411 words
(approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Night Cry Short Guide
Copyrights
Gale
Night Cry from Gale. ©2005-2006 Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation. All rights reserved.