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- Birth nameElse Holmelund
- Else Holmelund Minarik was born on September 13, 1920 in Fredericia, Denmark. She was a writer, known for Little Bear (1995), The Little Bear Movie (2000) and Little Bear's Visit (1996). She was married to Homer W. Bigart and Walter Minarik. She died on July 12, 2012 in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, USA.
- SpousesHomer W. Bigart(1970 - April 16, 1991) (his death)Walter Minarik(1940 - 1963) (his death, 1 child)
- Ms. Minarik's first husband, Walter Minarik, died in the 1960s; her second, Homer Bigart, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent for The New York Herald Tribune who was later a reporter for The New York Times, died in 1991. Her only child, a daughter, Brooke, from her first marriage, died before her.
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