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Barbara Holland : ウィキペディア英語版 | Barbara Holland Barbara Murray Holland (April 5, 1933 – September 7, 2010) was an American author who wrote in defense of such modern-day vices as cursing, drinking, eating fatty food and smoking cigarettes, as well as a memoir of her time spent growing up in Chevy Chase, Maryland, near Washington, D.C. ==Early life== She was born on April 5, 1933, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Chevy Chase, Md. Her parents divorced when she was a child and her mother later married Thomas Holland, whom she strongly disliked, later writing that Her mother, Marion Holland, had four more children and made a career writing and illustrating children's books—including ''A Big Ball of String,'' (1958) among the earliest Random House Beginner Books. Following in her mother's footsteps, Barbara Holland won the National Scholastic poetry competition in consecutive years while in high school, making her the first junior to win the competition and the first to win it twice when she won again the following school year.〔Staff. ("Local author Barbara Holland dies at 77" ), ''Loudon Times-Mirror'', September 10, 2010. Accessed September 14, 2010.〕
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