![]() ![]() Her first success on that front was a short story about a romance that was published in Redbook in 1957.īy 1963, Baylor had combined her passions for writing and the natural world in a new way, publishing her first children’s book, Amigo, illustrated by Garth Williams (Macmillan), about a boy who befriends a prairie dog in the desert. But according an Arizona Daily Star piece, her reporting on a well-known Tucson resident who was a slumlord led to a falling out in the newsroom and in 1955 Byrd moved on to become a freelance writer. She covered arts stories and segued into writing features about the people on the Tohono O’odham Reservation and other social justice issues that were important to her like poverty in Tucson. ![]() After that marriage ended, Byrd returned to Tucson and began working as a reporter for the Tucson Daily Citizen in 1951. ![]() Baylor studied creative writing at the University of Arizona but left in her junior year when she married a young naval officer and moved to San Francisco. ![]()
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