Irene Hunt Research Paper

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Irene Hunt is the daughter of Franklin P. and Sarah Land Hunt. Irene Hunt was born on May 18, 1907 in Pontiac, Illinois. Irene and her family soon moved to Newton, Illinois. Franklin, Irene Father died when Irene was only seven, and the family moved again to be close to Irene's grandparents. Irene's childhood was lonely. She enjoyed listening to her grandfather’s recollections of his childhood during the Civil War, later she use many of those stories in Across Five Aprils. She was educated from the University of Illinois, Urbana, from where she graduated with a BA in 1939, at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, from which she earned an MA in 1946. From 1930 to 1945 she taught English and French in schools in Oak Park, Illinois. From 1946

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