author
Margaret A. McIntyre
Best known today for a single surviving early children’s book, this elusive writer published a Stone Age adventure in 1907 that blended storytelling with lessons about prehistoric life. Very little biographical information has been widely preserved, which gives her work an unusual air of mystery.
1 Audiobook
The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone
by Margaret A. McIntyre
About the author
Margaret A. McIntyre is credited as the author of The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone, a heavily illustrated children’s book first published in 1907. The story follows a prehistoric family and was designed not just as an adventure, but also as an educational introduction to how people once imagined life in the Stone Age.
Public records that are easy to verify today are sparse, and major reference sources appear to preserve only the book itself rather than a fuller life story. Project Gutenberg lists The Cave Boy of the Age of Stone as her known work, which suggests that this title is the main reason her name has remained in circulation.
Because confirmed biographical details are so limited, it is safest to remember her as an early 20th-century writer of educational fiction for young readers. Even with so much of the author’s life now unclear, the book still offers a glimpse of how children were introduced to prehistory more than a century ago.