Betty Smith

#2

1946

A timeless classic! From Betty Smith - author of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, one of the most beloved novels of the past century - comes an unsentimental yet radiant and powerfully uplifting tale of young hearts and marriage. In 1927, in Brooklyn, New York, Carl Brown and Annie McGairy meet and fall in love. Though only eighteen, Annie travels alone halfway across the country to the Midwestern university where Carl is studying law - and there they marry. But their first year together is much more difficult than they anticipated, in a faraway place with little money and few friends. With hardship and poverty weighing heavily upon them, Annie and Carl come to realize that their greatest sources of strength, loyalty and love, will help them make it through. "A more dauntless heroine or a more appealing one has not turned up in a current novel in years" - New York Times

#3

Christmas Plays written by Betty Smith and 9 other popular authors. Connections: Good King Wenceslas (carol) / traditional -- Christmas bells (poem) / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The scrooge test (humor) from You know you're a scrooge when ... / by Scott Matthews and Barbara Alpert -- A Christmas wish (novel extract) from A tree grows in Brooklyn / by Betty Smith -- The cobbler and the banker (fable) / by Jean de la Fontaine -- The unrepentant rich man (reader's theater) Luke 16:19-31 / adapted by Diane B. Engel -- Scrooge, ghosts, Tiny Tim and Patrick Stewart (theater review) / by Mel Gussow -- A one-man version of A Christmas carol (interview extract) / with Patrick Stewart -- Christmas was a time of plenty (personal memoir) / by Nicholasa Mohr -- Christmas Eve (poem) / by Cathy Song -- Charles Dickens (biographical sketch).