Louise Butts was born in Portland, Tennessee. Her family moved to California when she was nine. She is a graduate of California State University at Chico, California and has done graduate work at the University of California at Davis, California State University at Sacramento and the College of the pacific.

In 1965 and 1966 she was a member of the Publications and Curriculum Development Committee at the University of California at Davis.

She taught history and English in junior high school for over twenty-two years. She taught at Live Oak, Sutter County: Rio vista, Solano County; and in Butte and Tulare Counties. Her Husband Edwin Hendrix retired as a superintendent of schools in Sutter County California.

She was for many years a newspaper correspondent for the Marysville Appeal-Democrat; Sacramento Bee; and Oroville Mercury-Register.

Books by Louise Butts Hendrix . . .

Better Readin’ and Writin’ with Journalism

Squaw Man

Petals and Blossoms

Sutter Buttes, Land of Histum Yani

The Silent One

Baby Donald makes a sandwich: A book about sequencing (Disney babies)