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Dorothy Sterling born November 23, 1913 is a Jewish-American writer and historian. She was born and grew up in New York City, attended Wellesley College and graduated from Barnard College in 1934. After college, she worked as a journalist and writer in New York City for several years. In 1937 she married Philip Sterling, also a writer. In the 1940s she worked for Life Magazine for 8 years. Her books are mainly historical works for children on the origins of the womens' and anti-slavery movements, civil rights, segregation, mystery, and nature. Sterling is the author of more than 30 books, including:
[edit] Nature
- (1951) Sophie and Her Puppies
- (1955) The story of mosses, ferns, and mushrooms
- (1966) Fall is Here!
- (1967) The Outer Lands Natural History Guide to Cape Cod & Islands by Dorothy Sterling and Winifred Lubell
[edit] Mystery
- (1958) The Silver Spoon Mystery by Dorothy Sterling
- (1960) Secret of the old post-box
- (1971) Mystery of the Empty House (Org. Secret of the Old Post Box) by Dorothy Sterling and Jane Goldsborough
[edit] Civil Rights
- (1953) United Nations, N. Y.
- (1954) Freedom Train: The Story of Harriet Tubman
- (1963) Forever free: The story of the Emancipation Proclamation
- (1964) Lucretia Mott
- (1965) Lift Every Voice: The Lives of Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell and James Weldon Johnson
- (1969) Tear Down the Walls!: A History of the American Civil Rights Movement
- (1978) Captain of the Planter: The Story of Robert Smalls
- (1984) We Are Your Sisters: Black Women in the Nineteenth Century
- (1994) The Trouble They Seen: Story of Reconstruction in the Words of African Americans
- (1994) Ahead of Her Time: Abby Kelly and the Politics of Antislavery
- (1996) The Making of an Afro-American: Martin Robison Delany 1812-1885
- (1998) Speak Out in Thunder Tones
[edit] Autobiography
- (2005) Close to My Heart: An Autobiography
