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Amy Wentworth Stone
1876–1938
A writer of lively children's stories, she drew on family life, social work, and sharp observation to create books full of spirited young characters. Her work also reached magazines, and one of her Vassar songs became the college's official alma mater.
2 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Born in Danvers, Massachusetts, in 1876, she studied at Vassar College and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1898. Before becoming known for children's fiction, she worked in social service, including with the Boston Children's Aid Society, and later lived with her family in Massachusetts.
She wrote books for young readers such as P-Penny and His Little Red Cart, Treasure for Debby, Here's Juggins, and Let Polly Do It. Her stories were also published in magazines including The Atlantic, and P-Penny and His Little Red Cart was selected by the National Council of Teachers of English for its Reading for Fun recommendations in 1937.
A second side of her writing life was her lasting connection to Vassar: a poem she wrote as a student, "Hark Alma Mater," was officially adopted as the college song in 1921. She died in 1938, and her posthumous book Going-on-Nine, inspired by her childhood at Locust Lawn, was later chosen by the Junior Literary Guild.