Laura Fry Kready

Laura Fry Kready was an American author born in 1874. She is chiefly remembered for A Study of Fairy Tales, first published in 1916, a book that explores the history, meaning, and educational use of fairy tales.

The surviving catalog and digitized book records available online identify her as Laura Fry Kready and consistently connect her with that 1916 work. The book's continued availability in library and archive collections suggests it became a useful resource for readers interested in storytelling, children's literature, and literary study.

Clear biographical details beyond her birth year are not easy to confirm from the sources I found, so it is best to keep the picture simple: she was a writer whose most notable legacy is a careful, readable study of fairy tales and their enduring place in reading and education.