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 midcoast setting.
She lived on a 33 acre farm on 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
ADULT NOVELS
- High Tide at Noon 1944
- Storm Tide 1945
- The Ebbing Tide 1947
- Rowan Head 1949
- The Dawning of the Day 1954
- No Evil Angel 1956
- The Witch Door 1959
- Call Home the Heart 1962
- There May be Heaven 1966
- 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
- Waters on a Starry Night 1968
- Bellwood 1969
- A Theme for Reason 1970
- Weep and Know Why 1972
- Strawberries in the Sea 1973
- Where the Lost Aprils Are 1975
- The Dreaming Swimmer 1976
- A Dancer in Yellow 1979
- The Devil in Tartan 1980
- The Silent Ones 1981
- The Road to Nowhere 1983
YOUNG ADULT/JUVENILE NOVELS
- Whistle for a Wind: Maine 1820 1954
- Blueberry Summer 1956
- The Fabulous Year 1958
- How Wide the Heart 1959 republished as Steady Kind of Love 1979
- The Young Islanders 1960
- Becky's Island 1961
- Turn Around Twice1962
- Ceiling of Amber 1964 published as Until the End of Summer [[1981}
- Masquerade at Sea House 1965
- The Pigeon Pair 1967
- Come Aboard and Bring Your Dory! 1969 published as Nobody Knows About Tomorrow 1971
- Beautiful Girl 1980
- A Forgotten Girl...and a Forgotten Time 1982
- Too Young to Know 1982
- My Summer Love 1985
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
- My World is an Island 1950
REFERENCE WORK BY HAYES/WESTERVELT
- A Mup-up with Elisabeth: A Companion for Readers of Elisabeth Ogilvie 2001
