Author:Cornelia Meigs

Cornelia Meigs
(1884–1973)

United States author / Novelists / Children's authors / Biographers

Works

Children's fiction

• The Kingdom of the Winding Road, 1915, illus. Frances White Hathitrust
• Master Simon's Garden, 1916 Hathitrust
• The Pool of Stars, 1919, illus. Edward C. Caswell
• The Windy Hill, 1921, illus. Edward C. Caswell [Newbery runner-up]
• Rain on the Roof, 1925 illus. Edith Ballinger Price

Fiction as Adair Aldon

• The Island of Appledore, 1917, illus. W. B. King
• The Pirate of Jasper Peak, 1918
• At the Sign of the Two Heroes, 1920 (first serialized in Boy's Life 1920)
• The Hill of Adventure, 1922, illus. J. Clinton Shepherd IA

Plays

• The Steadfast Princess; a play for young people, 1916 [Drama League prize] IA
• Helga and the White Peacock; a play in three acts for young people, 1922 IA

Short works from magazines

• "The Black Sheep's Coat" (ss) Windsor Magazine, 1921
• "Primrose Lane" (play with music) St Nicholas, 1919
• "Romance" (verse) St Nicholas, 1921

Other works

(For information only)

Biographies

• Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of "Little Women", 1933 [Newbery Medal winner]
• Jane Adams: Pioneer for Social Justice: A Biography, 1970

Adult works

• Railroad West, 1937, (novel)
• The Violent Men: A Study of Human Relations in the First American Congress, 1949
• A Critical History of Children's Literature: A Survey of Children's Books in English from Earliest Times to the Present, Prepared in Four Parts Under the Editorship of Cornelia Meigs, 1953; with Anne Thaxter Eaton, Elizabeth Nesbit and Ruth Hill Viguers
  • Second edition, A Critical History of Children's Literature: A Survey of Children's Books in English, 1969}
• What Makes a College? A History of Bryn Mawr, 1956