author
Orton Lowe
b. 1873
Best remembered for writing about children’s reading and editing classic story collections, this early-20th-century writer helped bring fairy tales and literary guidance to young audiences.
1 Audiobook
Literature for Children
by Orton Lowe
About the author
Born in 1873, Orton Lowe is chiefly associated with children’s literature, both as a writer and as an editor. Library catalogs and book records link him to works such as Literature for Children and editions of classics including The Arabian Nights and Grimm’s fairy tales.
His best-known original work appears to be Literature for Children, a study of books for young readers first published in the early 1900s and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and library archives. The surviving records suggest a career centered on introducing, organizing, and explaining literature for younger audiences rather than on a large body of standalone fiction.
Reliable biographical detail beyond his birth year is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to view him as a literary educator and editor whose name endures mainly through library collections and reprinted children’s classics.