Bertha Mahony Miller

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Bertha Everett Mahony Miller (1882-1969) was an American editor and publisher who spent most of her life promoting children's literature. She was born in Rockport, Massachusetts and attended Simmons College. In 1906, she became a staff member of the Women's Educational and Industrial Union and established the Bookshop for Boys and Girls who occasionally had poets such as Robert Frost and T.S. Eliot come in for "poetry time" ten years later. She, along with Eleanor Whitney, founded the Horn Book Magazine in 1924 and served as its first editor, a position she held until 1951. Mahony became a Miller in 1932 when she married William Davis Miller. For her contributions to children's lterature, she was awarded the Regina Medal in 1967.