Susan Allen Toth (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Susan Allen Toth is an important Midwestern chronicler of the life of the common person. Her writing shows how a relatively mundane life may seem intriguing if it is told with sensitivity and sympathy for humanity. Born in Ames, Iowa, where she also grew up, she had a quiet and happy childhood with her mother, Hazel Erickson Allen Lipa, an English teacher at Iowa State University, and her sister, Karen, one year older than Toth. Her father, Edward Douglas Allen, a promising economist at Iowa State, died when she was seven years old; her mother did not remarry until Toth’s college...
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