author
George Griswold Livermore
b. 1886
An American writer best remembered for Take It from Dad, he came from a bookish New England family and spent time in journalism and publishing. His life bridged the late Victorian world and the mid-20th century, giving his work an old-fashioned, conversational charm.
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Take It from Dad
by George Griswold Livermore
About the author
Born in Melrose, Massachusetts, on October 7, 1886, George Griswold Livermore was an American author with deep literary and historical family ties. Archive records identify him as the grandson of the earlier historian and book collector George Livermore, and biographical listings place him among Massachusetts-born writers of the early 20th century.
Available reference sources say he studied at Williams College, earning a B.A. in 1910, and later worked on the staff of The Youth's Companion in Boston from 1914 to 1918. He is chiefly associated today with Take It from Dad, the work most often linked to his name in library and public-domain catalogs.
Livermore died on July 3, 1951. Although not widely known now, the surviving records suggest a writer shaped by journalism, education, and a family culture of books and letters.