Adele DeLeeuw

Adele DeLeeuw (pronounced Lew-oo; 1899–1988) was an American–Dutch children's story writer. The New York Times[1] attributes more than 75 children's book to her.[2]

Biography

She was originally a native of Ohio and then, in her adult life, emigrated to Plainfield, New Jersey- then the "Queen City" of the area.[3] After her death she bequeathed her estate to the Plainfield Foundation which in turn generated a scholarship fund for students seeking post-secondary education in the Humanities and Sciences. Members of the Rotary Club of the Plainfields[4] took on the responsibility of managing the selection of scholarship recipients and presenting those awards. DeLeeuw managed to bequeath a total of US$1,000,000 for that cause. Every year since, there has been a scholarship award ceremony, including dinner at the Spain Inn Restaurant[5] in Piscataway, NJ. As of 2019, the fund has granted more than the original $1 million bequest, which continues to grow.

After her sister Cateau died, she wrote a book Remembered with Love: Letters to my Sister. The book is a series of chapters for each month of the year. In it, Adele writes to Cateau with remembrances of their lives together and expresses her heartfelt love for the sister she sorely misses. It gives a snapshot of their lives together and is among one of her last and most important books.

Selected works
  • Remembered with Love: Letters to my Sister. ISBN 0-912650-03-6
  • Nurses Who Led the Way. DeLeeuw, Adele & DeLeeuw, Cateau. (1961). Racine, Wisconsin: Whitman Pub. Co.

References
  1. https://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/14/obituaries/adele-de-leeuw-88-a-writer-for-children.html?scp=1&sq=Adele%20deLeeuw&st=cse
  2. A small but important selection of books can be found at: http://www.paperbackswap.com/Adele-De-Leeuw/author/
  3. http://www.plainfield.com/ – Plainfield, New Jersey
  4. http://www.clubrunner.ca/portal/SitePages/SitePage.aspx?cid=7685&pid=55990 – Rotary Club
  5. http://www.spaininn.net/ – Spain Inn
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