Alice Calhoun Haines

Alice Calhoun Haines (1874–1965) was an American author whose work appears in library and public-domain records from the early 1900s through the 1910s. Confirmed titles include Japanese Child Life, Indian Boys and Girls, and The Luck of the Dudley Grahams, showing a range from illustrated children’s books to longer fiction.

Several book and catalog sources also connect her with newspaper and theater writing in Pasadena, California, where she is said to have written play reviews and a weekly column called A Little Room. Those details appear consistently in reader and memorial-style sources, so they are best taken as plausible biographical background rather than fully documented facts.

Today, she is remembered mainly through surviving editions of her books and their availability in archives such as Wikisource, Project Gutenberg, and library collections. Her writing has an accessible, old-fashioned charm that still appeals to readers interested in classic children’s literature.