Muriel Beadle
American writer (1915-1994)
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Muriel Beadle (née McClure; 1915 - February 13, 1994) was an American journalist and author.[1]
Beadle was born in California in 1915.[citation needed] She graduated from Morgan Park High School, after which she attended Pomona College, ultimately received a bachelor’s degree Phi Beta Kappa. She later received an honorary doctorate from Mundelein College.[2]
Beadle started her career with at Carson Pirie Scott & Co. as an advertising copywriter in the 1930s. She then wrote for the Los Angeles Mirror-News from 1948 to 1958.[2] She published her first book, These Ruins are Inhabited, with Doubleday in 1961.[3][4] In 1966, she published The Language of Life, which she cowrote with her husband, Nobel Prize-winning geneticist George Beadle.[5][6][7] The following year, the book was a finalist for the National Book Award for Science, Philosophy, and religion.[8]
Published works
- These Ruins are Inhabited (Doubleday, 1961)
- The Hyde Park-Kenwood urban renewal years: A history to date (1964)
- The Language of Life: An Introduction to the Science of Genetics, with George Beadle (Doubleday, 1966)
- A Child's Mind: How Children Learn during the Critical Years from Birth to Age Five Years (Methuen, 1971)[9][10]
- Where Has All the Ivy Gone?: A Memoir of University Life (Doubleday, 1972)[11][12]
- The Fortnightly of Chicago; the city and its women: 1873-1973 (1973)
- A Nice Neat Operation (Doubleday, 1975)[13]
- The Cat: A Complete Authoritative Compendium of Information About Domestic Cats (Simon and Schuster, 1977)[14][15][16]
- Mt. San Antonio Gardens: an informal history, 1953-1986, (1988)
