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My inner Peers are Children.
-Wilma Yeo | |
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Born in Republican City, Nebraska in
1918, Wilma Yeo grew up in Maryville, Missouri. She attended Kansas
City Missouri Junior College and the University of Kansas City (now,
University of Missouri at Kansas City) and was a resident of Kansas City,
Missouri. Ms. Yeo died in 1994.
Mrs. Yeo was a volunteer elementary school librarian and a fiction editor for an arts magazine formerly published in Kansas City, Missouri. For more than twenty years, Mrs. Yeo taught creative writing workshops in the Continuing Education program through the University of Missouri at Kansas City. She also taught creative writing for both adults and children at both Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri and at the Johnson County Community College in Johnson County, Kansas. She served as an inspiring mentor and helpful critic for the Kansas City Writers Group and also taught the Kansas City Juvenile Writers Group from 1967 to 1990. Mrs. Yeo was the author of some ten published works in both prose and poetry. They include picture books for children, mystery books for pre-teens, and a biography of Thomas Hart Benton written with Helen K. Cook. Her works include Mrs. Neverbody’s Recipes, 1968; Mystery of the Third Twin, 1972; Oliver Twister and His Big Little Sister, 1973; Maverick With a Paint Brush; The story of Thomas Hart Benton, 1977; Gypsy Summer, 1986; Girl in The Window, 1988, and Stranger at Winfield House, 1989. |
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