author
Gertrude Knevels
1881–1962
Best remembered for The Wonderful Bed, this early 20th-century writer created imaginative stories for children and also wrote plays. Her work has stayed in circulation through library collections, public-domain archives, and audiobook editions.
1 Audiobook
The Wonderful Bed
by Gertrude Knevels
About the author
Born in 1881 and died in 1962, Gertrude Knevels was an American author whose surviving bibliography points especially to children's literature. Library of Congress and Project Gutenberg records confirm her as the author of The Wonderful Bed, first published in 1912, and Open Library listings also connect her with A Little Excitement, a play for girls in three acts.
Her best-known book, The Wonderful Bed, has had a long afterlife beyond its original publication. It remains available through major public-domain collections and has also been adapted as a LibriVox audiobook, suggesting that her gentle, imaginative storytelling continued to find readers well after her own time.
Little reliable biographical detail appears to be widely available online, so it is safest to remember her through the work itself: a writer associated with fantasy-tinged children's fiction and stage pieces for young performers, active in the early decades of the 20th century.