Moeri, Louise
Entry updated 1 April 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1924-2021) US author, mostly for the children's and Young Adult markets, who began to publish work of genre interest with a Christmas fantasy for younger children, Star Mother's Youngest Child (1975 chap). Of direct sf interest is Downwind (1984), a Near Future tale recounting the effects of a nuclear Disaster on a family attempting to escape fallout. [JC]
Mary Louise Healy Moeri
born Klamath Falls, Oregon: 30 November 1924
died Manteca, California: 12 June 2021
works (highly selected)
- Star Mother's Youngest Child (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1975) [chap: illus/hb/Trina Schart Hyman]
- Downwind (New York: E P Dutton, 1984) [hb/]
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