Genevra Sisson Snedden

Genevra Sisson Snedden was an American author born in 1873. She is known from library and book records for works including Docas, the Indian Boy of Santa Clara (1899) and Leif and Thorkel, Two Norse Boys of Long Ago (1925), both written for younger readers and shaped around historical settings.

A surviving archival collection at Stanford shows that her family correspondence stretches across the first half of the twentieth century. The papers include many letters between Genevra Sisson Snedden and her daughter Hope Snedden, along with family photographs and genealogical material, suggesting a life closely tied to family history, memory, and storytelling.

Available records also indicate that she died in 1950 and was buried in Palo Alto, California. While detailed biographical information appears to be limited online, her books and papers preserve the outline of a writer who contributed to historical reading for children and whose work remained remembered in libraries and archives.