- Elisabeth Ogilvie
Elisabeth Ogilvie (
May 20 1917 -September 9 2006 ) was an American writer. She was born inBoston and grew up in Dorchester, Quincy, and Roxbury.She spent her summers on the coast of Maine. She attended schools in Dorchester and
Mount Wollaston , graduating from North Quincy High School in 1934. Later she took writing courses at Harvard University.Elisabeth Ogilvie wrote "
High Tide at Noon " in 1944 her first of nine novels in the Bennett Island families series. She would write over 40 novels and books in her prolific career. Many of her novels dealt with life in Maine and lobstering families along the coast. She also wrote a host of young adult novels that were popular from 1950s to 1980s, such as "The Fabulous Year (1958) and "Beautiful Girl" (1980). They generally were situated in the "midcoast" setting.She lived on a 33 acre farm on
Gay's Island ,Maine with her companion, Dorothy Simpson (1905-1998), who was also a writer, for more than 50 years.Elisabeth Ogilvie died
September 9 2006 inCushing, Maine .Works Published
;Adult novels
*"High Tide at Noon" 1944
*"The Ebbing Tide" 1947
*"The Dawning of the Day" 1954
*"The Witch Door" 1959
*"There May be Heaven" 1966
*"The Seasons Hereafter" 1966
*"Image of a Lover " 1974
*"Beautiful Girl" 1980
*"The World of Jennie G" 1986
*"When the Music Stopped " 1989
*"The Day Before Winter" 1997
*"Bellwood" 1969
*"Weep and Know Why" 1972
*"Where the Lost Aprils Are" 1975
*"A Dancer in Yellow" 1979
*"The Silent Ones" 1981;Young-adult novels
*"Whistle for a Wind: Maine 1820" 1954
*"The Fabulous Year" 1958
*"The Young Islanders" 1960
*"Turn Around Twice"1962
*"Masquerade at Sea House" 1965
*"Beautiful Girl" 1980
* "A Forgotten Girl...and a Forgotten Time" 1982
* "My Summer Love" 1985;Autobiography
* "My World is an Island" 1950External links
* [http://www.ncteamericancollection.org/litmap/ogilvie_elisabeth_ma_me.htm Elisabeth Ogilvie]
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