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S. Elizabeth Hall
From psychology textbooks to children's fiction, this author built a wide-ranging career that blends curiosity about human behavior with a gift for storytelling. She is especially known for writing for young readers and for completing work left behind by her husband, the children's author Scott O'Dell.
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A Loose End and Other Stories
by S. Elizabeth Hall
About the author
Elizabeth Hall is an American author and editor who has written psychology textbooks as well as children's and young adult novels. Publisher biographies say her first children's book appeared in 1967, and that she later spent nine years at Psychology Today and three years at Human Nature.
Her books for younger readers include Child of the Wolves, a novel about a husky puppy that joins a wolf pack. Hall was also married to Newbery Medal-winning author Scott O'Dell. After his death, publisher biographies note that she completed manuscripts he had left unfinished.
Available sources also describe Hall as being from Bakersfield, California, and as having studied English at Fresno State College before working as a public librarian. Her career stands out for moving comfortably between nonfiction about the mind and imaginative fiction for young readers.