Author and naturalist. Helen Hoover was the author of seven books, including three children's books, and numerous articles on nature and the back-to-the-land movement which appeared in such magazines as Audubon, Gourmet and American Mercury. She graduated from the University of Ohio, where she studied chemistry. In 1936, she married Adrian Hoover, an artist. In 1954, due to Adrian's failing health and disillusioned with the hectic pace of life in Chicago, the Hoovers decided to leave their careers for a year in order to seek solitude and rest in a cabin in the north woods of Minnesota. After a year, faced with the decision of returning to Chicago or staying in the North Woods, they decided to remain in Minnesota. There, they lived for the next sixteen years without electricity, telephone or a car. Mrs. Hoover wrote about their experiences in a series of books, "The Gift of the Deer," "The Long-Shadowed Forest," "A Place in the Woods," and "The Years of the Forest." The books were a record of their life in the big woods without modern conveniences, as well as stories about their daily interaction with the creatures that lived in the forest around them. Adrian Hoover provided pen and ink illustrations for the books. In 1970, she and her husband decided to return to the urban life. They retired to Laramie, Wyoming where they lived until her death in 1984. Her husband died two years later and was buried in Denver.
Author and naturalist. Helen Hoover was the author of seven books, including three children's books, and numerous articles on nature and the back-to-the-land movement which appeared in such magazines as Audubon, Gourmet and American Mercury. She graduated from the University of Ohio, where she studied chemistry. In 1936, she married Adrian Hoover, an artist. In 1954, due to Adrian's failing health and disillusioned with the hectic pace of life in Chicago, the Hoovers decided to leave their careers for a year in order to seek solitude and rest in a cabin in the north woods of Minnesota. After a year, faced with the decision of returning to Chicago or staying in the North Woods, they decided to remain in Minnesota. There, they lived for the next sixteen years without electricity, telephone or a car. Mrs. Hoover wrote about their experiences in a series of books, "The Gift of the Deer," "The Long-Shadowed Forest," "A Place in the Woods," and "The Years of the Forest." The books were a record of their life in the big woods without modern conveniences, as well as stories about their daily interaction with the creatures that lived in the forest around them. Adrian Hoover provided pen and ink illustrations for the books. In 1970, she and her husband decided to return to the urban life. They retired to Laramie, Wyoming where they lived until her death in 1984. Her husband died two years later and was buried in Denver.
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