Betsy Byars was born on August 7, 1928, in Charlotte, North Carolina, the daughter of George Guy and Nancy Rugheimer Cromer. She attended Furman University from 1946 to 1948, and received her bachelor's degree in English from Queens College, Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1950. She married Edward Ford Byars that year. The Byarses live in South Carolina and have four children.
When her husband was a graduate student at the University of Illinois, Byars began her writing career, publishing articles in the.....
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