Eunice Young Smith

Eunice Young Smith
BornJune 10, 1902 
La Salle 
DiedNovember 8, 1993  (aged 91)
South Bend 
OccupationWriter 

Eunice Young Smith (June 10, 1902 – November 8, 1993) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books.

Eunice Young Smith was born on June 10, 1902 in LaSalle, Illinois, the daughter of Arthur Merriman Young and Katherine Genevieve Whitmarsh Young. She attended Rosary College and Lake View Commercial Art School in Chicago. In 1927, she married engineer Stuyvesant C. Smith and they would have two children.[1][2]

Smith published at least seventeen children's novels, which she illustrated herself. Set prior to World War I, her Jennifer series is a series of novels about a midwestern US farm girl named Jennifer Hill.[3] In the final book of the series, High Heels for Jennifer (1964), Jennifer helps her rich friend train a chestnut hunter named High Heels. In her Shoon: Wild Pony of the Moors (1965), a boy named Loren saves money to buy an Exmoor pony.[4] Her novel A Trumpet Sounds (1985) is a fictionalized version of the life of Roland Hayes, one of the earliest successful African-American opera singers.[5]

She also illustrated filmstrips and books by others and she was a painter and printmaker.[2]

Eunice Young Smith died on 8 November 1993 in South Bend, Indiana.[6]

Bibliography

  • Moppet. Chicago: Whitman, 1950.[2]
  • Denny's Story. Chicago: Whitman, 1952.[2]
  • Sam's Big Worry. Chicago: Whitman, 1953.[2]
  • The House with the Secret Room. Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1956.[2]
  • The Little Red Drum. Chicago: Whitman, 1961.[2]
  • Where From? Chicago: Rand, 1962.[2]
  • Where To, Tillie Turtle? Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1964.[2]
  • Shoon, Wild Pony of the Moors. Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1965.[2]
  • To Each a Season. Indianapolis: Bobbs, 1965.[2]
  • The Knowing One. New York: Meredith, 1967.[2]
  • A Trumpet Sounds. Westport: Lawrence Hill, 1985.[5]

Jennifer novels

  • The Jennifer Wish. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949.[2]
  • The Jennifer Gift. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950.[2]
  • The Jennifer Prize. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1951.[2]
  • Jennifer Is Eleven. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1952.[2]
  • Jennifer Dances. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954.[2]
  • High Heels for Jennifer. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1964.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Indiana authors and their books 1917-1966". webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu. Retrieved 2025-12-13.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Something about the author: facts and pictures about contemporary authors and illustrators of books for young people. Vol. 5. Internet Archive. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research. 1972.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
  3. ^ Margery Fisher (December 1964). Intent Upon Reading. Internet Archive. Hodder. ISBN 978-0-340-03510-8. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
  4. ^ Wear, Terri A. (1987). Horse stories : an annotated bibliography of books for all ages. Internet Archive. Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-1998-6.
  5. ^ a b National Council of Teachers of English. Committee to Revise High Interest-Easy Reading (1988). High interest easy reading : for junior and senior high school students. Internet Archive. Urbana, Ill. : National Council of Teachers of English. ISBN 978-0-8141-2096-5.
  6. ^ "Nov 10, 1993, page 12 - The South Bend Tribune at Newspapers.com™". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2025-12-16.
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