She has also penned travel and food pieces.
She has published over 70 diverse children’s books and 10 adult non-fiction books, from the hopefully humorous There Wouldn’t Be Sunbeams Without Little Specks of Dust to the informative Dell Encyclopedia of Cats.
The arrival of son, Brack, catapulted her into free-lancing, where she remains in orbit. Her poetry, seen by Lucille Ogle, then vice president of Golden Books, led to a stint as an editor, during which she wrote a number of children’s books including Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Dayton, Ohio born Barbara Shook Hazen now divides her time between Manhattan, where she bikes and enjoys the theater, and Otis, Massachusetts in the Berkshire Hills, where she relishes the surrounding cultural and scenic bouquet, including bears.Ī graduate of Smith, Columbia and night Speedwriting, she stayed East to become an assistant in the fiction/article department of the Ladies’ Home Journal, where she later became poetry editor.
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