Ursula Nordstrom

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Ursula Nordstrom (1910 - 1988) was director of Harper's Department of Books for Boys and Girls from 1940 to 1973.

Among the authors she edited were Laura Ingalls Wilder, Margaret Wise Brown, and E. B. White.

"In a career that spanned over thirty years, Nordstrom published tradition-bending books by Ruth Krauss, Crockett Johnson, Maurice Sendak, Lousie Fitzhugh, Charlotte Zolotow, John Steptoe, M.E. Kerr, and others." (Making of Goodnight Moon, 11)

A collection of her correspondence was published in 1998, as Dear Genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom

[edit] Sources

Marcus, Leonard S. The Making of Goodnight Moon. New York: HarperTrophy, 1997.

Nordstrom, Ursula. Dear Genius: the letters of Ursula Nordstrom. ed. Leonard S. Marcus. New York: HarperCollins, 1998.