Marian Hurd McNeely

Born in 1877 and dying in 1930, Marian Hurd McNeely is chiefly remembered for The Jumping-Off Place, a children's novel published in 1929 and named a Newbery Honor Book in 1930. The story follows four children trying to hold onto a South Dakota homestead, and contemporary summaries note that it was based on her own experience as a homesteader on the Rosebud Indian Reservation.

She also wrote earlier fiction, including When She Came Home from College, and library and books-page records show her work continued to circulate well after her death through digitized editions and reprints. Taken together, the surviving notices of her writing suggest an author interested in family life, growing up, and the practical challenges of everyday American life.

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