Harriet L. (Harriet Lummis) Smith

Born in Auburndale, Massachusetts, on November 29, 1866, Harriet Lummis Smith grew up in a literary and academic family and later studied at the University of Wisconsin. She went on to build a successful writing career as a novelist, with a strong focus on fiction for girls and young women.

Smith is especially remembered for the Peggy Raymond books and for writing later entries in the Pollyanna series after Eleanor H. Porter. Before and alongside her fiction, she also worked in journalism, including writing dramatic criticism for the Boston Transcript, which helps explain the clear, energetic feel of her prose.

She died in Philadelphia on May 9, 1947. No suitable verified portrait image was found on the sources checked, so a profile image is not included here.