| LC control no. | n 79058680 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Wallace, Barbara Brooks, 1922-2018 |
| Variant(s) | Brooks, Barbara Frances, 1922-2018 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1922-12-03 |
| Death date | 2018-11-27 |
| Place of birth | Suzhou (Jiangsu Sheng, China) |
| Place of death | Arlington (Va.) |
| Field of activity | Children's stories Detective and mystery stories |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | Her Claudia, 1969 Something about the author, 1973: v. 4, p. 221-223 (b. in Soochow, China) Washington post WWW site, viewed Dec. 6, 2018 (in obituary published Dec. 5: Barbara Brooks Wallace; b. Barbara Frances Brooks, Dec. 3, 1922, Suzhou, China, where her father, a former silent-film actor, had moved to sell lamp oil with the Standard Oil Co. of New York; her mother, who was Russian, had immigrated to China amid the Russian Revolution and became a nurse; m. Air Force Lt. Col. James Wallace Jr., 1954 (d. 2005); d. Nov. 27, Arlington, Va., aged 95; children's author who summoned an aura of Victorian mystique in award-winning novels including Peppermints in the parlor) |
| Associated language | eng |
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