Looking for Minnesota Authors: Dorothy Bladin Hill and Ruth Slonim

Minnesota Landscapes, the book published by the League of Minnesota Poets, has a number of Duluth authors I don’t know and want to know more about.

Dorothy Bladin Hill has a vertical file record at the Duluth Public Library — I gotta check that out. Bladin Hill was also an author of the Big Book of Christmas Entertainments. What other stories might anyone share that might ignite my students’ passion?

Ruth Slonim was faculty at Washington State, which maintains her papers.

Academic writing: She wrote a paper, collaboratively, for College Composition and Communication, Vol. 10, No. 2 (May, 1959), pp. 116-120 (5 pages). One, too, for an education journal.

There is a picture in the Digital Public Library. And an obit, online.

These may be her books:

I think I gave my students some of these books, without realizing she grew up here.

Does anyone have any stories?