Who died first, Paula Fox or Laura Ingalls Wilder
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Paula Fox Paula Fox (April 22, 1923 – March 1, 2017) was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. For her contributions as a children's writer she won the biennial, international Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978, the highest international recognition for a creator of children's books. She also won several awards for particular children's books including the 1974 Newbery Medal for her novel "The Slave Dancer"; a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for "A Place Apart"; and the 2008 Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis for "A Portrait of Ivan" (1969) in its German-language edition "Ein Bild von Ivan".
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Laura Ingalls Wilder Laura Ingalls Wilder ( ; February 7, 1867 – February 10, 1957) was an American writer known for the "Little House on the Prairie" series of children's books released from 1932 to 1943 which were based on her childhood in a settler and pioneer family.
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Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt (July 29, 1861 – February 14, 1884) was an American socialite and the first wife of President Theodore Roosevelt. Less than two days after giving birth to their only child, she died from Bright's Disease.
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Lyda Southard Lyda Southard (also known as Lyda Anna Mae Trueblood) was born on October 16, 1892, and died on February 5, 1958, of a heart attack. She is considered one of America's first female serial killers, preceded by Jane Toppan. It was suspected that she had killed her four husbands, a brother-in-law, and her daughter by using arsenic poisoning derived from flypaper to poison them in order to attain life insurance money.
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Ann Fox Chandonnet Ann Fox Chandonnet is an American poet.
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John Foxe John Foxe (1516/17 – 18 April 1587) was an English historian and martyrologist, the author of "Actes and Monuments" (popularly known as "Foxe's Book of Martyrs"), an account of Christian martyrs throughout Western history but emphasizing the sufferings of English Protestants and proto-Protestants from the fourteenth century through the reign of Mary I. Widely owned and read by English Puritans, the book helped mould British popular opinion about the Catholic Church for several centuries.
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Fanny Brawne Frances (Fanny) Brawne Lindon (9 August 1800 – 4 December 1865) is best known for her betrothal to English Romantic poet John Keats, a fact largely unknown until 1878, when Keats's letters to her were published. Their engagement, lasting from December 1818 until Keats's death in February 1821, spanned some of the most poetically productive years of his life.
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Florence Harding Florence Mabel Harding (née Kling; August 15, 1860 – November 21, 1924), wife of President Warren G. Harding, was the First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923.
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Paula Kent Meehan Paula Jane Meehan (formerly Kent; née Baer; August 9, 1931 – June 23, 2014) was an American businesswoman, executive and philanthropist. She co-founded the Redken hair care products company. She briefly worked as an actress and fashion model.
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Elizabeth Fleischman Elizabeth Fleischman (5 March 1867 – 3 August 1905) was an American radiographer who is considered an X-ray pioneer. Fleischman was the first woman to die from the effects of her work with X-rays.
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Harry Richard Landis Harry Richard Landis (12 December 1899 – 4 February 2008) was, at age 108, the older of the last two American First World War veterans. The final one was Frank Buckles, who died in 2011. John Babcock, a naturalized American, served in the Canadian Army during the war, and also survived Landis.
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Paula Vogel Paula Vogel (born November 16, 1951) is an American playwright and university professor. She received the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play "How I Learned to Drive". Vogel was Chair of the playwriting department at the Yale School of Drama.
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Little House in the Big Woods Little House in the Big Woods is an autobiographical children's novel written by Laura Ingalls Wilder and published by Harper in 1932 (reviewed in June). It was Wilder's first book published and it inaugurated her "Little House" series. It is based on memories of her early childhood in the Big Woods near Pepin, Wisconsin, in the early 1870s.
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Ruth Jury Scott Ruth Jury Scott (27 March 1909 – 18 June 2003) was a lifelong environmental activist, naturalist, and conservationist. Scott was a close friend and colleague to Rachel Carson due to their shared passion for educating others about the environment as well as the deadly effects of chemical pesticides. She later served on the executive committee of the Rachel Carson Trust for the Living Environment, Inc.
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Evelyn Fox Dame Evelyn Emily Marian Fox, DBE (1874–1955) was a noted British health worker, specializing in mental health and epilepsy.
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Paula Hyman Paula Ellen Hyman (September 30, 1946 – December 15, 2011) was the Lucy Moses Professor of Modern Jewish History at Yale University and president of the American Academy for Jewish Research from 2004 to 2008. She also served as the first female dean of the Seminary College of Jewish Studies at the Jewish Theological Seminary from 1981 to 1986. She received a PhD from Columbia University in 1975.
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Paula Trueman Paula Trueman (April 25, 1897 – March 23, 1994) was an American film, stage and television actress.
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Clara Ingram Judson Clara Ingram Judson (May 4, 1879 – May 24, 1960) was an American author who wrote over 70 children's books, primarily nonfiction including several biographies of American presidents. In 1960 she won the second Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal from the professional children's librarians, although she died before she could receive it. The award recognizes a living author or illustrator whose books, published in the United States, have made "a substantial and lasting contribution to literature for children".
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Saint Laura Saint Laura of Cordoba (Spanish: "Santa Laura de Córdoba" ; died 864) was a Spanish Christian who lived in Muslim Spain during the 9th century. She was born in Córdoba, and became a nun at Cuteclara after her husband died, eventually rising to become an abbess. She was martyred by Muslims who took her captive and scalded her to death by placing her in a vat of boiling pitch. Her feast day is on 19 October; she is one of the Martyrs of Córdoba.
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Jean Fritz Jean Guttery Fritz (November 16, 1915 – May 14, 2017) was an American children's writer best known for American biography and history. She won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children's literature in 1986. She turned 100 in November 2015.
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Joanna Fox Waddill Joanna Painter (Fox) Waddill (September 24, 1838 – January 3, 1899) was a nurse assisting wounded and ill Confederate soldiers during the American Civil War. She became celebrated as the "Florence Nightingale of the Confederacy" for her humanitarianism.
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Alfred Fox Alfred Fox, (9 September 1794 – 20 May 1874) of Falmouth, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom, was owner and developer of Glendurgan Garden, now a National Trust property, and was a member of the Quaker Fox family of Falmouth.