Phyllis Crawford [SEP] date of death
Phyllis Crawford
Phyllis Crawford (February 8, 1899 – July 1980) was, during the 1930s and 1940s, a celebrated author of books for children in their early teens.
Born in Little Rock, Arkansas, she graduated from Randolph-Macon Woman's College in 1920 and then from library school at the University of Illinois in 1924 and became an editorial assistant for H.W. Wilson. In 1930, she published her first children's book "". In 1938, she wrote "Hello the Boat!" (Holt
Hand Is Damned," on the syndicated anthology series, "Death Valley Days", hosted by Ronald Reagan. In the story line, Dora Hand (Phyllis Coates) nurses an ungrateful gunslinger, Bill Crawford (John Clarke), back to health after he is shot by Kelley in self-defense. Having lost the use of his right hand, Crawford develops skills with his left hand and vows to kill Kelley. Instead, he mistakenly shoots Dora to death. He thinks that her silhouette in Kelley's house was