Sibyl's first published piece was a letter to Santa submitted to a local contest in 1893, for which she won first place in the class for children between 6 and 8 years old (she was 5 1/2). Her first poem followed at age 7, and by her late teens the notebook that was started as a "Baby Journal" by her father was filled with the poems and essays she wrote as a young woman.During the course of her 96 years, she was a prolific writer of not only of poetry...
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