author
Lida B. Robertson
A little-known early 20th-century writer remembered for warm, prize-winning stories, she is best known today for the children's Christmas tale Jakie's Christmas. Her work has endured through library records and modern digital editions, keeping a small piece of regional American storytelling alive.
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Jakie's Christmas
by Lida B. Robertson
About the author
Lida B. Robertson is a scarce figure in the historical record, and only a few details could be confirmed. Project Gutenberg lists her as the author of Jakie's Christmas, and the text itself credits her with prize-winning short stories including How The Bad Boy Was Won.
Available records also indicate that her full name was Lida Bestor Robertson. A surviving edition of Jakie's Christmas connects her work with Alabama, and the story is now preserved in digital form for modern readers.
Because reliable biographical sources are very limited, much of her life remains unclear. What can be said with confidence is that she wrote fiction with a strong moral and emotional pull, and that Jakie's Christmas has remained the work most closely associated with her name.