author

Grace Willard Edick

b. 1875

Best known for early twentieth-century children's books set in vividly imagined past worlds, this little-known writer helped bring cliff dwellers and prehistoric life into stories for young readers. Her surviving works suggest a gift for blending adventure, history, and accessible storytelling.

2 Audiobooks

Children of the Cliff

Children of the Cliff

by Belle Wiley, Grace Willard Edick

Lodrix, the Little Lake Dweller

Lodrix, the Little Lake Dweller

by Belle Wiley, Grace Willard Edick

About the author

Born in 1875, Grace Willard Edick is a little-documented American author whose name survives chiefly through a small number of children's books from the early 1900s. Reliable catalog and library records connect her with works published by D. Appleton and Company, and modern digital libraries have helped keep those books available.

Edick is best known for co-authoring Children of the Cliff and Lodrix, the Little Lake Dweller with Belle Wiley. Both titles point to an interest in young readers, ancient settings, and educational adventure, reflecting a period when children's fiction often mixed storytelling with lessons about history and culture.

Because so little biographical information is easily confirmed, the books themselves remain the clearest window into her career. Even so, their continued presence in Project Gutenberg, the Library of Congress, HathiTrust, and The Online Books Page shows that her work has had a modest but lasting afterlife.