Alice Crary Sutcliffe

Alice Crary Sutcliffe was an American writer whose work centered on history, biography, and family heritage. Contemporary catalog and library records link her to books including Robert Fulton and the "Clermont" and The Homestead of a Colonial Dame, both published in 1909.

In the preface to Robert Fulton, she describes herself as a great-granddaughter of Fulton, which helps explain the personal interest and firsthand family connection behind her best-known book. That volume presents the inventor's life for young readers, while also drawing on letters, drawings, and historical material connected to his career.

Available records also indicate that she was born into the Crary family and later married Arthur Taylor Sutcliffe. While many details of her life are not easy to confirm from widely available sources, her surviving books show a writer interested in preserving stories of early America in an accessible, engaging way.