author
Marguerite Aspinwall
1888–1982
A writer of adventure stories for young readers, she also worked as a journalist and fashion editor. Her books range from island treasure hunts and sea-going history to retellings drawn from Indian folklore.
2 Audiobooks
The sea girl : A tale of Nantucket in the clipper ship days
by Marguerite Aspinwall
Gay's year on Sunset Island
by Marguerite Aspinwall
About the author
Marguerite Aspinwall was an American writer born in New York in 1888 and died in Pennsylvania in 1982. Sources available online describe her as a novelist, journalist, and at one point a fashion editor for Ladies Home Magazine.
Her fiction includes books such as Gay's Year on Sunset Island (1926), The Sea Girl (1928), The Wind from Spain (1931), and Jataka Tales Out of Old India. The titles that remain easiest to trace today suggest a fondness for young protagonists, travel, history, and lively adventure.
Some details of her life are still hard to confirm from easily accessible sources, so the picture we have is only partial. Even so, her surviving books show a versatile author who moved comfortably between magazine work, juvenile fiction, and retellings for younger readers.