Elisabeth Ogilvie
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Elisabeth Ogilvie (May 20, 1917 - September 9, 2006) was an American writer. She was born in Boston and grew up in Dorchester, Quincy, and Roxbury.
She spent her summers on the coast of Maine. She attended schools in Dorchester and Mount Wollaston, graduating from North Quincy High School in 1934. Later she took writing courses at Harvard University.
Elisabeth Ogilvie wrote High Tide at Noon in 1944 her first of nine novels in the Bennett Island families series. She would write over 40 novels and books in her prolific career. Many of her novels dealt with life in maine and lobstering families along the coast. She also wrote a host of young adult novels that were popular from 1950s to 1980s, such as The Fabulous Year (1958) and Beautiful Girl (1980). They generally were situated in the Downeastern setting.
She lived on a 33 acre farm on (the ironically named) Gay's Island, Maine with her companion, Dorothy Simpson (1905-1998), who was also a writer, for more than 50 years.
Elisabeth Ogilvie died September 9, 2006 in Cushing, Maine.
[edit] Works Published
- High Tide at Noon 1944
- Storm Tide 1945
- The Ebbing Tide 1947
- The Fabulous Year 1958
- The Seasons Hereafter 1966
- The Face of Innocence 1970
- Image of a Lover 1974
- An Answer in the Tide 1978
- Beautiful Girl 1980
- Jennie About to Be 1984
- The World of Jennie G 1986
- The Summer of the Osprey 1987
- When the Music Stopped 1989
- Jennie Glenroy 1993
- The Day Before Winter 1997
