Children's book author Byrd Baylor is at home in the desert
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It's five miles of rutted, rocky road to Byrd Baylor's house and worth every bone-jarring dip. • At its end stands the acclaimed children's au…
She lives in the middle of nowhere, tapping out her tales on one of three manual typewriters. • For more than four decades, Byrd Baylor has de…
As I drive up to Byrd Baylor's house near Arivaca, a red pickup truck with four young volunteers pulls up beside me.
From the early 1960s through the 1990s, Baylor wrote 30 books that brought the Southwest's charms and Native American culture home to children and adults alike. She scored big with her 1977 novel, "Yes is Better Than No," named one of 100 Essential Arizona Books for the state's 2012 centennial.