John Bibee, Date of Birth

    

John Bibee

American writer

Date of Birth: 02-Jan-1954

Profession: writer, teacher, children's writer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About John Bibee

  • John Bibee (January 2, 1954 - November 17, 2018) was an American children's writer.
  • He was the author of eight books in the Spirit Flyer Series, as well as eight mystery books in the Home School Detectives Series.
  • His books have been read during children's story hours broadcast on radio stations across the country.
  • Several have also won awards from Christian Home & School magazine.
  • A former grade school teacher, Bibee lived and wrote in Austin, Texas until his death in 2018. John was born on January 2, 1954 in Seaford, Delaware to parents Ernest and Elsie Bibee.
  • He subsequently spent his childhood years alongside his parents and two older sisters in Sarasota, Florida; St.
  • Louis, Missouri; and Denver, Colorado in which his father worked as a horticulturist, before moving back to Delaware when he was in the 8th grade.
  • His mother was an elementary school teacher and reading specialist and instilled in John a love for reading.
  • John’s passion to write was also kindled at a young age during the 8th grade by a very special English teacher, the late Mr.
  • Norman Reynolds.
  • John finished high school in Delaware a year early and moved to attend college at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas, where he met his life partner Lucinda (‘Cindy’) Kramar as a freshman.
  • John moved multiple times during his college years before finally graduating Magna Cum Laude with high honors with a Bachelor’s in English from San Diego State University in 1979. It was also during these years that John proposed to Cindy.
  • They were married on June 10, 1976 at the Kramar family farmhouse in El Centro, California.
  • Cindy and John lived the early years of their marriage together in the desert of southern California, followed by a year in Lima, Peru before moving to Austin, Texas in 1982 and building their own home in the hill country.
  • Soon after, they welcomed their first child, William (1982), and a few years later, their daughter Maria (1985). Over the course of his life, John worked in a variety of settings in order to pursue his dream of writing inspiring children’s stories.
  • His most well-known book, The Magic Bicycle, was the fifth novel that John wrote, but the first to see publication in 1983 by Intervarsity Press.
  • The geography and lifestyle of north central Missouri, especially the small towns and rural areas, form the setting for his stories.
  • Bibee engages the imaginations of his readers through adventure fantasy stories and leads them into the Deeper World, a place where children play an important role in the struggle between good and evil. John died on November 17, 2018 in Austin, Texas at Seton Hospital at the age of 64, after a year and a half long battle with esophageal cancer.
  • He is survived by his wife, two children, and grandchildren.

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