Sizzling Pan Ranch

by Lee Wyndham

The Hawthorne family, which includes 12 year old Kim and his 10 year kid sister Lydia, move from New Jersey to an isolated ranch in the California desert to improve his father's health. The ranch is complete with a camel and ancient prospector/caretaker, not to mention the local wildlife, heat, lack of amenities, and gold in them thar hills....

212 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1951

About the author

Jane Andrews Lee Hyndman (December 16, 1912-March 18, 1978) was born in Russia and came to the United States in 1923 where she became a U.S. Citizen. She was the daughter of Andrew and Alexandra Levchenko. In 1933 she married Robert Hyndman (pseudonym Robert Wyndham) and they had two children. Lee Hyndman was educated in both the United States and in Turkey where she studied singing and painting. She was a member of the Author’s Guild of the Author’s League of America and Women’s National Book Association (New York).

During her career Hyndman worked as a children’s book editor for the Morristown Daily Record in Morristown, New Jersey from 1949-1958 and at the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1950-1963. Beginning in 1958 Hyndman began lecturing on writing for teens and children at New York University. She also held several other jobs such as author of a syndicated children’s book column in five New Jersey newspapers beginning in 1963, lecturer, book critic, free-lance editor and project consultant. She also conducted several writing seminars and conferences. She was also a professional fashion model in New York.