Alice Dalgliesh

Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American writer and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children. She has been called "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction". Dalgliesh was born in Trinidad, British West Indies, and immigrated to England with her family at age 13. She later moved to the United States to study kindergarten education and earned degrees in education and English literature from Columbia University. She taught for 17 years at the Horace Mann School and also taught courses on children's literature at Columbia. In 1934, she founded the children's book publishing department at Charles Scribner and Sons, where she worked until 1960. Her stories often drew on her own life experiences, which took place on four continents. Three of her books were runners-up for the Newbery Medal.