Stephen W. (Stephen Warren) Meader

Born in Providence, Rhode Island, on May 2, 1892, Stephen W. Meader grew up in a Quaker family and spent part of his childhood in rural New Hampshire after his father left teaching to work as a timber cutter. He graduated from Haverford College in 1913, worked with the Children's Aid Society as a social worker, and later built a long writing career focused on fiction for young readers.

Meader wrote more than forty novels, many of them adventures about boys learning self-reliance or finding themselves caught up in earlier periods of American history. His books were known for their energy, practical detail, and hopeful tone. One of his best-known works, Boy with a Pack, received a Newbery Honor in 1940.

He later lived in Moorestown, New Jersey, where he was active in local library life and served for many years as president of the Moorestown Free Library trustees. Meader died on July 18, 1977. No suitable confirmed portrait image was found during this search, so none is included here.