Grace May North
Grace May North (Monfort) (February 1, 1876 – July 23, 1960) was a newspaper journalist and author of novels for children and adolescents, stories which featured both girl and boy protagonists. She wrote primarily under her birth/'maiden' name Grace May North although some of her later novels were also republished under the pen-name Carol Norton.
Biography[edit]
Grace May North was born in Utica, New York on February 1, 1876. During her career she is known to have worked as a newspaper journalist. She resided in New York City where she worked at the Webster Branch of the New York Public Library from 1910 to 1915. Her duties included running a story telling club for girls, and doing story telling in schools and institutions.[1] She moved west to Nevada, residing in Carson City. Subsequently she moved to Santa Barbara, California. Grace died in San Luis Obispo, California on July 23, 1960.
Career[edit]
North wrote most of her novels from ca. 1918 to ca. 1935. She produced two series of novels for adolescent girls (roughly 1919-1924), and went on to write a number of individual novels, also for girls. Many of the later were also subsequently republished under the pen-name Carol Norton. In addition to her female-themed young-adult works she was also the author of, among others, three books in the X Bar X Boys series for adolescent boys and the Southwestern Stories for Children series for younger children (unpublished).[2][3]
Works[edit]
Adele Doring series[edit]
- Adele Doring of the Sunnyside Club (1919; Adele Doring, #1)
- Adele Doring on a Ranch (1920; Adele Doring, #2)
- Adele Doring at Boarding-School (1921; Adele Doring, #3)
- Adele Doring in Camp (1922; Adele Doring, #4)
- Adele Doring at Vineyard Valley (1923; Adele Doring, #5)
Virginia Davis series[edit]
- Virginia at Vine Haven (1924)
- Virginia's Adventure Club (1924)
- Virginia of V.M. Ranch (1924)
- Virginia's Ranch Neighbors (1924)
- Virginia's Romance (1924)
Individual books[edit]
- The Bylow Squirrel Boys (1915;Bedtime Rhymes)
- Meg of Mystery Mountain (1926)
- Nan of the Gypsies (1926)
- Rilla of the Lighthouse (1926)
- Bobs, a girl detective (1928)
- Sisters (1928);
- The Seven Sleuths’ Club (1928)
- The Phantom Yacht (1928)
- The Phantom Town Mystery (reprinted? 1933)
- Dixie Martin, The Girl of Woodford's Cañon (1924)
X Bar X Boys series[edit]
- The X Bar X Boys at the Strange Rodeo (1935; X Bar X Boys #14)
- The X Bar X Boys Hunting the Prize Mustangs (1937; X Bar X Boys #16)
- The X Bar X Boys at Triangle Mine (1938; X Bar X Boys #17)
Family[edit]
Grace was the daughter of Eugene Northrup and Adele N. Harrington.[1][4]
She married widower William Nelson Monfort in Santa Barbara on August 3, 1923.[4]
One of her step-sons, Donald L. Monfort, was killed in World War II.
Her other step-son, Gordon W. Monfort, died in Fresno in 1985.[5]
References[edit]
- ^ a b Detwiler, Justice C. (editor), Who's Who in California: A Biographical Directory 1928-29. San Francisco: Who's Who Publishing, 1929, page 306.
- ^ "Carol Norton". LibraryThing.com. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "Grace May North". Goodreads.com. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ a b California State Library; Sacramento, California; Biographical Files.
- ^ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VG15-RJD : 26 November 2014), Gordon W Monfort, 16 Aug 1985; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
External links[edit]
- Works by Grace May North at Project Gutenberg
- Works by Carol Norton at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Grace May North at Internet Archive
- Works by or about Carol Norton at Internet Archive
- Works by Grace May North at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Grace May North, on the LibraryThing wiki—bibliography and basic bio.
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