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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: Snacktime Tales (2002). 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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