They Came from Bohemia: The Lost Violin

Clara Ingram Judson was the author of more than seventy books for children, including several biographies of U.S. presidents. In 1960, she was the second-ever winner of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for literature for children. Abraham Lincoln: Friend of the People was nominated for a Newbery Award in 1951. Judson was the president of the show more Illinois Women's Press Association from 1923 to 1925. She died in 1960 in Evanston, Illinois. show less