Belle Moses

Belle Moses was an American author whose work focused on biography and history. Duke University’s description of the Moses family papers says she wrote roughly thirty books for children and adults, many about well-known figures in literature and American life.

Her known books include Louisa May Alcott, Dreamer and Worker, Lewis Carroll in Wonderland and at Home, Charles Dickens and His Girl Heroines, and Paul Revere, the Torch Bearer of the Revolution. The range of subjects suggests a writer interested in making celebrated lives readable and engaging for a broad audience.

Clear biographical details about her personal life are harder to confirm from the sources reviewed here, so this overview stays close to what can be verified: Belle Moses was a productive biographical writer, and her manuscripts and papers survive in the Moses family collection at Duke University.