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Her works include Old Arthur, We Were Tired of Living In a House, His Mother"s Dog, Elizabeth and Outside My Window.
Her works include Old Arthur, We Were Tired of Living In a House, His Mother"s Dog, Elizabeth and Outside My Window.
Liesel graduated from Wells College, Aurora, New York, and went on to Yale University where, while studying philosophy, she met a scholar named Erling Skorpen. When he completed his Doctor of Philosophy in philosophy, they wed and moved to Nevada to start their family.
Mississippi Skorpen moved to the United States at a young age. Her illustrator for Old Arthur was Wallace Tripp. Born in Germany, to Walter and Elizabeth Moak, she came to the United States with her family, was raised and educated in Cleveland, Ohio.
Together, Liesel and Erling built a family of seven children, two of whom they adopted, one from of Korea and the other off an Indian reservation.
After suffering the loss of a young son, Per Anders, they moved to Maine - See more at:.