Elizabeth Bacon

Background

Elizabeth Bacon was born on September 15, 1914, in Los Angeles, California, United States. She was a daughter of James Edwin Morrow and Elizabeth Margaret Morrow (maiden name Hodenpyl).

Education

Elizabeth Bacon received a Bachelor of Arts degree at Bryn Mawr College in 1935. It was followed by a Master of Library Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1958.

Career

Elizabeth Bacon began her career as a children's book editor in various publishing firms from 1935 to 1952.

Beginning in 1958, she worked as a children's librarian in California for twenty years. So, from 1959 to 1970, she served as a central children's services librarian at the Contra Costa County Library system. She then directed children's services at the Solano County Library for eight years.

Bacon also taught children's literature classes, including the University of California, Berkeley from 1978 to 1984, and at other colleges and universities like the California State University, Sonoma.

Bacon was the founder of the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, and she published children's books under her maiden name, Betty Morrow. She wrote about subjects of particular interest to her like the Jewish faith, and nature and the environment.

As Betty Bacon, the author was also a community activist in the San Francisco Bay area, focusing on human rights and civil rights activities, and a self-described "armchair anthropologist" with an interest in the lifestyle and history of the Native Americans of the Bay area.

Prior to her move to California in 1958, Bacon worked for publishing firms in New York City for nearly twenty years. While there, she contributed poetry to the New Yorker and reviews to the New York Times Book Review.

Achievements

• Elizabeth Bacon is considered as an accomplished librarian, author, and editor. She was featured in Marquis Who's Who.
  
  Bacon was a recipient of special recognition at the Bay Area Storytelling Festival, Berkeley and Tribute of a Lifetime Committee of Correspondence, San Francisco, both in 1994.

Works

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  • See Through the Sea

    (The book is written in collaboration with Winifred Lubell.)

    1955
  • See Up the Mountain 1958
  • Jewish Holidays 1967
  • A Great Miracle: The Story of Hanukkah 1968

Membership

Elizabeth Bacon was a Member of the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Sacramento, California, since 1974 and of the Criminal Justice Project, the American Friends Service Committee, Oakland, California, both since 1994.

She was also a member of the American Federation of Teachers, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (since 1977).

• Friends Committee on National Legislation , United States

  1974

• Criminal Justice Project , United States

  1994

• American Friends Service Committee , United States

  1994

• American Federation of Teachers , United States

• American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations , United States

• Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators , United States

  1977

Personality

Physical Characteristics: Elizabeth Bacon died of respiratory failure.

Interests

• bird watching, needlepoint, archeology

• Sport & Clubs

  travelling

Connections

Elizabeth Bacon married George Richards Bacon on September 7, 1939. The family produced two children named David Nathaniel, and Daniel Carl. Elizabeth and George divorced in June 1963.

Father:

James Edwin Morrow

Mother:

Elizabeth Margaret Morrow

Spouse:

George Richards Bacon

Son:

Daniel Carl Bacon

Son:

David Nathaniel Bacon