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Leonora de Lima Andrews
1900–1985
A little-known American writer remembered today for the dreamy 1924 book Do You Believe in Fairies? and for adaptations and retellings published for younger readers. Her surviving record is sparse, which gives her work an old-storybook kind of mystery.
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Do you believe in fairies?
by Leonora de Lima Andrews
About the author
Leonora de Lima Andrews was an American author born in Manhattan on July 24, 1900, and she died in February 1985 in Emerson, New Jersey. The clearest surviving records available here identify her by those dates and connect her with a small body of published work.
She is best known for Do You Believe in Fairies?, first published in 1924, a title that suggests the gentle, imaginative tone associated with her name today. Library and public-domain records also show her as the author of children's retellings and adaptations, including a 1939 condensed version of Gulliver's Travels.
Although detailed biographical information appears to be limited, Andrews's books have remained discoverable through library catalogs, Project Gutenberg, and other archival projects. That surviving presence hints at a writer whose work was meant to charm readers with fantasy, classic storytelling, and a sense of wonder.