Babcock, Charlotte M.

1929 -

Casper, WY
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Natrona County

Biographical and Professional Information

Longtime Casper resident Charlotte Babcock is the author of The St. Patrick’s Story and Shot Down: Capital Crimes of Casper (High Plains Press, 2000), which won the Wyoming State Historical Society’s history book of the year award. She was recognized in 2001 by the City of Casper and the American Association of University Women as a “renowned author, freelance writer and editor.”

She has also published award-winning fiction, non-fiction, children’s fiction, poetry, essays and humor in various anthologies including Woven on the Wind (Houghton Mifflin, 2001 and Crazy Woman Creek, (Houghton Mifflin, 2004), and Wyoming Writing.

Babcock is a longtime member of Wyo Poets and is past president of Wyoming Writers, Inc. and recipient of that organization’s prestigious Emmie award in 1983 for her outstanding contributions.

She is a founding member of the literary advisory panel at Casper College, and has taught classes at the college in writing for children. Currently she writes for Footprints, the college’s alumni magazine, and is working on two new books.

Charlotte Babcock graduated from Casper College in 1949 with an associate of arts degree in liberal arts, and taught for the Natrona County School District for more than 25 years. Babcock currently serves on the Casper College Alumni Board, a position she has held since the organization began in 1986.

Genres

Fiction
History
Nonfiction
Wyoming Subjects

Titles

Shot Down!: Capital crimes of Casper, Wyoming (2000). Glendo, WY: High Plains Press. ISBN: 0931271525.

The St. Patrick's Story, 1963-1987 (1987). Casper, WY: Prairie Publishing Co. ISBN: (?).

Windsingers: A collection of stories (Editor) (1984). Cody, WY: Wyoming Writers, Inc. in association with Eagle Publishing. ISBN: 0917557018. Co-editors Sharon Brondos and Nancy Heyl Ruskowsky.