Lillian Elizabeth Roy

Born in 1868 and dying in 1932, Lillian Elizabeth Roy was an American author of juvenile fiction. Reference sources connect her most strongly with series books for young readers, especially the Polly Brewster novels, and listings of her work also show titles such as Polly of Pebbly Pit, Polly in New York, and several Girl Scouts books.

Roy's fiction often centered on energetic girls, friendship, travel, and adventure. She is also noted in speculative-fiction reference sources for The Prince of Atlantis (1929), an unusual late work that brought a lost-world idea into her body of writing.

Some archival and bibliographic records place Roy among writers associated with the era of packaged juvenile series fiction, when publishers and syndicates helped produce books for a wide audience of young readers. Even now, her stories remain of interest to readers exploring classic girls' series books from the early 1900s.