Authors and Illustrators Database

Hazel Batten Girard

Born: 12/08/1901  Batten's Crossing near Glennie, Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ViewFeatures.StringHtmlContent
Died: 04/24/1989
Parents: John W. and Johanna A. Batten
Spouse: Joseph Jerome Girard
Children: Victor M. , Marvin Eugene

Writings

Image Title Genre Audience Publisher Date
Black Loam and Buttermilk: downhome poems
- Light Verse with illustrations by the author and M. E. Girard 		Poetry Adult Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press 1986
Blow for Batten's Crossing: A Backwoods Odyssey Non Fiction, Michigan Adult Sterling Heights, MI: Glendon Publishing 1979
Rail Fences and Roosters : poems and almost poems
- Light Verse with son, Marvin Eugene Girard 		Poetry Adult Francestown, N.H. : Golden Quill Press 1978
A Giant Walked among Them: Half-Tall Tales of Paul bunyan and His Loggers Folklore Adult Francestown, N.H. : Marshall Jones 1977
"Batten Me Down", a column Poetry Adult Bay City Times
Other writings:
- Contributor of articles and photgraphs to magazines and newspapers, including Collier's, American Home, Nature, Field and Stream, and Outdoors 		Adult
What is the aim or goal of your writing: 2nd ed. says, "I like writing that treks along without the seeming labor pains of creation. I dislike pompous, academical writing as if the author is suffering from the terminal, dread fear of split infinitives. I have been very fortunate in the editors leave my writing intact, exactly as submitted to them. I was once told by Malcolm M. Bingay (venerable editor of the Detroit Free Press) that I wrote with cadence, with a proclivity for for choosing words with 'ear appeal'. I simply like writing that 'picks up its heels' and get trekking down the printed page."

May inquiries be sent to you about doing workshops, readings: No

Donated books to the Authors & Illustrators database project: No

Skills:
Author
Illustrator
Poet

Inclusion in biographical or critical works:

Name Date
Literary Michigan by the Michigan Council for the Humanities 1988
Contemporary Authors, v. 112 1985
Michigan Authors, 2nd ed., 3rd. ed.
- Included in the following years: 1980, 1993 		1980-1993

Memberships:

Name Date
"Handshaking Methodist"
International Platform Association
Photographic Society of America
Shiawassee Historical Society
Corunna VFW Auxiliary 4005

Education:

Degree Institution Location Date
Ann Arbor High School Ann Arbor, MI

Career:

Position Organization Location Date
Assistant postmaster of Glennie, MI 1927-1930
Freelance writer and photographer, 1922
Partner in family wholesale candy businees
Photographs syndicated Free-lance Photographers Guild

Other Resources:

MeLCat Links:
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