“There is a saving grace in truth which helps truth-tellers through the worst of their troubles.”
About Susan Coolidge
29 January 1835–9 April 1905
Sarah Chauncey Woolsey, who wrote under the enduringly cheerful name Susan Coolidge, was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on 29 January 1835, and died in Newport, Rhode Island, on 9 April 1905. She occupies a central place in the history of American children’s literature, though her reputation has often rested too narrowly on…