author
Grace Willard Edick
1875–1954
A little-known early 20th-century writer, she is remembered for children's stories that turn ancient North American settings into gentle adventures. Her surviving books suggest a warm, accessible style shaped for young readers.
2 Audiobooks
Children of the Cliff
by Belle Wiley, Grace Willard Edick
Lodrix, the Little Lake Dweller
by Belle Wiley, Grace Willard Edick
About the author
Grace Willard Edick was an American author born in 1875 and deceased in 1954. The clearest surviving record of her work is bibliographic: major public-domain and library listings credit her with two children's books, Children of the Cliff and Lodrix, the Little Lake Dweller, both written with Belle Wiley.
Those books place her in the tradition of early juvenile fiction that introduced young readers to imagined lives in older North American communities and landscapes. Children of the Cliff, first published in 1905, follows two children in a cliff-dwelling setting and has remained available through library and public-domain projects, which has helped preserve Edick's name even though biographical information about her is now scarce.
Because so little confirmed personal detail is readily available, Edick is best understood today through the books themselves: short, story-driven works for children, written in collaboration and remembered mainly by librarians, archivists, and readers of vintage fiction.