Alice Geer Kelsey

Alice Geer Kelsey

Alice Geer Kelsey was an American author of a number of books. Her children's story, "Once the Hodja" (1943), with illustrations by Frank Dobias, retold stories about the Turkish folk hero Nasreddin.

Kelsey was born "Alice Geer" in Danvers, Massachusetts and grew up in Lewiston, Maine and West Hartford, Connecticut. She received her B.A. in history from Mount Holyoke College in 1918. In 1919 she married Lincoln David Kelsey and immediately thereafter left on the second boat taking relief workers to the Near East after World War I. She worked with war orphans at Merzifoun, Turkey, and collected the stories retold in "Once the Hodja".

External links

* [http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/~schiff/Once/front.html#info Fan website for "Once the Hodja"]
* [http://www.bookprice24.com/author/Alice%20Geer%20Kelsey Books by Alice Geer Kelsey]


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