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Augusta Stevenson
1869–1976
Best known for lively biographies that introduced young readers to American history, this longtime teacher wrote with a clear sense of what children would enjoy and remember. Her books helped turn famous names into approachable, story-filled lives.
2 Audiobooks
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, A Reader for the Fourth Grade
by Augusta Stevenson
Children's Classics in Dramatic Form, Book Two
by Augusta Stevenson
About the author
Augusta Stevenson was an American children's writer and teacher whose work was closely tied to the classroom. Sources describe her as being born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and teaching in Indianapolis Public Schools before building a career writing for young readers.
She is especially remembered for her contributions to the Childhood of Famous Americans series, a popular line of biographies that presented well-known historical figures through their early years. An Indiana Libraries article says she wrote more than twenty-eight books in that series, and other sources also credit her with the Children's Classics in Dramatic Form volumes, which adapted classic tales for school and home reading.
Her writing had a practical, inviting style that fit both education and entertainment, which helps explain why her books stayed visible for decades. Reliable sources found here confirm that she was active across the 20th century and died in 1976.