- Recipient of a (USA) National Medal of Arts, 2003.
- Won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award in 1975.
- She attended the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Washington. She earned money for tuition with a variety of jobs, including seamstress and chambermaid.
- Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1938, with a degree in English, and earned a second degree, in Library Science, from the University of Washington in 1939.
- She was the daughter of Mable Atlee, a schoolteacher, and Chester Lloyd Bunn, a farmer.
- She passed away only a few weeks before what would have her 105th birthday.
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