Maud Gridley Budlong

Very little biographical information about this author is readily available in major public sources, but she is credited as a writer of the children's fantasy Bobbie Bubbles, published in 1916 with E. Hugh Sherwood, who also illustrated the book.

The story has had a long afterlife through public-domain and rare-book collections, which has helped keep her name in circulation even though personal details about her life are hard to confirm. That makes her one of those early authors known mainly through the appeal and survival of a single imaginative work.

For listeners who enjoy vintage children's fiction, her legacy lies in that sense of old-fashioned wonder: a light, whimsical adventure built around a child's imagination and the simple magic of play.