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1973–2021 · GRADED, NAME BY NAME
Each member of the checklist's cluster was graded at the source, and each grades to the neighbouring city or the campus — except the cluster's last seat, which is filled from this ground. The historian for young readers: Phillip Hoose (born May 31, 1947, in South Bend; grew up in South Bend, Angola and Speedway; lives in Portland, Maine), author of Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice (2009; National Book Award for Young People's Literature), We Were There, Too!: Young People in U.S. History (2001) and The Race to Save the Lord God Bird (2004) — a South Bend birth, no more. The resident nature writer: April Pulley Sayre (April 11, 1966 – November 6, 2021), born in Greenville, South Carolina, who moved to South Bend in 1996 and lived there until her death, author of more than sixty-five children's nature books — One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab, Vulture View, Thank You, Earth — and research collaborator on her husband's Kaufman Field Guide to Nature of the Midwest (2015). A city-of-South-Bend resident, across the line. The field guide from a local childhood: Kenn Kaufman (born 1954 in South Bend; birding from age six; family moved to Wichita, Kansas, when he was nine), author of Kingbird Highway and the Kaufman Field Guides beginning with the Field Guide to Birds of North America (2000) — a South Bend birth and nine childhood years, printed at exactly that strength. The Gothic children's novelist the university formed: John Bellairs (January 17, 1938 – March 8, 1991), born in Marshall, Michigan, formed at Notre Dame (B.A. English, magna cum laude, 1959), author of fifteen Gothic mystery novels for young readers beginning with The House with a Clock in Its Walls (1973) — a campus-formed neighbour, never a resident here.
And then the seat the cluster did not expect: this ground's own resident nature writer, at scholarly strength. Laura Dassow Walls, William P. and Hazel B. White Professor of English at Notre Dame, is carried by her publishers — the University of Chicago Press catalogue and Tantor Media alike — with the line “She lives in Granger, Indiana.” Her bibliography is nature writing at its highest scholarly form: Seeing New Worlds: Henry David Thoreau and Nineteenth-Century Natural Science (1995), Emerson's Life in Science: The Culture of Truth (2003), The Passage to Cosmos: Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America (2009), and Henry David Thoreau: A Life (University of Chicago Press, 2017; Los Angeles Times Book Award for Biography). The tie is printed at the strength the record gives it — residence as stated by her publishers, as of the 2017 catalogue — and it makes the old Notable People negative (“no author of national record born or seated in the CDP was found”) no longer true as written; see the contradiction flag filed with this run's closures.
Sources: Publisher and award records for Hoose (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / National Book Foundation), Sayre (Publishers Weekly obituary; Indiana Libraries author study), Kaufman (Grist interview; ABA award record) and Bellairs (Encyclopedia.com author entry; Notre Dame Magazine); University of Chicago Press Spring 2017 catalogue and Notre Dame English emeriti CV for Walls' residence line and bibliography.