Shirley Climo
, 1929 - 2012
Shirley Climo (1929 – 2012) was born in Cleveland, Ohio. She began to study at De Pauw University but dropped out when her mother died. She took over her mother’s work writing radio scripts for Fairytale Theatre, a radio show for the Cleveland station WGAR. She lived for many years in California, and wrote over twenty picture books, drawing on fairytale, myth, and folklore from around the world.
Bio prepared by Elizabeth Hale, University of New England, ehale@une.edu.au
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