author
Robert Gordon Anderson
1881–1950
Best known for lively children's books like Seven O'Clock Stories and Half-Past Seven Stories, this American writer mixed bedtime adventure with a warm, playful imagination. He also wrote novels, history, and travel-themed works, showing a range well beyond his best-loved tales for young readers.
2 Audiobooks
Seven O'Clock Stories
by Robert Gordon Anderson
Half-Past Seven Stories
by Robert Gordon Anderson
About the author
Robert Gordon Anderson was an American author born in 1881 and died in 1950. He is most closely associated with children's fiction, especially the Marmaduke stories collected in Seven O'Clock Stories and Half-Past Seven Stories, books that helped make him memorable to generations of young listeners and readers.
His body of work was broader than those famous story collections suggest. Records of his publications show that he also wrote novels and nonfiction, including titles such as The Isle of Seven Moons, Leader of Men, Those Quarrelsome Bonapartes, and The City and the Cathedral, pointing to an author comfortable with adventure, biography, history, and reflective prose.
That mix of cozy storytelling and wider literary interests gives his work a distinctive charm. Even when only a few titles are widely remembered today, Anderson stands out as a versatile early-20th-century writer whose gentlest books still feel especially well suited to being read aloud.