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McSwigan wrote for Pittsburgh newspapers and worked in publicity for many area institutions. Besides ten children's books, she wrote two adult biographies: Shy Hooks, the life of primitive painter John Kane, and Athlete of Christ, the life of St. Nicholas of Flue, Switzerland's patron saint, and several other works of nonfiction. She died of leukemia on July 16, The following is an essay she wrote about herself and her books.

When no other shelter opened, the family took up residence in an abandoned carousel.

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They were fortunate to find one. As everyone knows, and none better than I from an amusement park family, such unused, uncared-for equipment is rarer than uranium. This scarcity a fourth grader failed to consider in a book report of the work. Nonetheless, because of the merits of his pithy prose, he won an honorable mention in a town wide contest of the fourth grades of fourteen public and parochial schools.

He wrote but a page and a quarter, perhaps twenty sentences.