![]() ![]() After having suffered a heart attack at 91, she died at home from complications, on July 12, 2012. Minarik's last book, Little Bear and the Marco Polo, was published in 2010. Minarik married her second husband, Pulitzer-winning journalist Homer Bigart, in 1970 after his death in 1991, she moved to Sunset Beach in Brunswick County, North Carolina, where she continued writing longhand, as she always had. She later lived in West Nottingham, New Hampshire. She subsequently lived on Long Island, where she was employed as a first-grade teacher for the Commack School District. After graduating from Queens College, City University of New York (B.A., 1942), she became a journalist, for the Daily Sentinel newspaper of Rome, New York, during World War II. By 1940, Else had married Walter Minarik, who died in 1963. ![]() Minarik was also the author of another well-known book, No Fighting, No Biting! Biography īorn in Fredericia, Denmark, Minarik immigrated to the United States at the age of four with her family. She was most commonly associated with her Little Bear series of children's books, which were adapted for television. ![]() Else Holmelund Minarik (née Holmelund Septem– July 12, 2012) was a Danish-born American author of more than 40 children's books. ![]()
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