Genevra Sisson Snedden

Genevra Sisson Snedden was an American author born in 1873. Library and book records show that she wrote Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara in 1899 and later published Leif and Thorkel, Two Norse Boys of Long Ago in 1925, marking her as a writer interested in bringing history to younger readers in an accessible way.

Archival records at Stanford note that she studied education at Stanford University as part of the class of 1898. Those same archival collections show that her papers and family correspondence were preserved, suggesting a life closely tied to education, writing, and family history.

Her later work also included Mountain Cattle and Frontier People: Stories of the Snedden Family, 1867 to 1947, showing that her interests extended beyond children's fiction into regional and family history. She died in 1950.