Edith S. McCall

In 1955, after a distinguished career as an educator, Edith McCall moved to the Ozarks to pursue her lifetime dream of writing full-time. The award-winning author of 50 books, and coauthor of 30, she was a trailblazer in writing interesting textbooks and entertaining novels in controlled vocabulary for readers with learning disabilities. McCall's broad interests are reflected in her popular local lectures and her many articles for adults, which have been published in anthologies and a wide range of newspapers …