Grace May North

Grace May North (Monfort) (February 1, 1876 – July 23, 1960) was a newspaper journalist and author of novels for children and adolescents, stories which featured both girl and boy protagonists. She wrote primarily under her birth/'maiden' name Grace May North although some of her later novels were also republished under the pen-name Carol Norton.

Biography

She was born Grace May North in Utica, New York on February 1, 1876. During her career she is known to have worked as a newspaper journalist. She resided in New York City where she worked at the Webster Branch of the New York Public Library from 1910 to 1915. Her duties included running a story telling club for girls, and doing story telling in schools and institutions.[1] She moved west to Nevada, residing in Carson City. Subsequently she moved to Santa Barbara, California. Grace died in San Luis Obispo, California on July 23, 1960, and was buried in Halcyon Cemetery, Halcyon, California.[2]

Career

She wrote most of her novels from ca. 1918 to ca. 1935. She produced two series of novels for adolescent girls (roughly 1919-1924), and went on to write a number of individual novels, also for girls. Many of the later were also subsequently republished under the pen-name Carol Norton. In addition to her female-themed young-adult works she was also the author of, among others, the X Bar X Boys series for adolescent boys and the Southwestern Stories for Children series for younger children (unpublished).[3] [4]

Works

Adele Doring series

Virginia Davis series

individual novels

X Bar X Boys series

Family

Grace was the daughter of Eugene North and Adele N. Harrington.[5]

She married widower William Nelson Monfort in Santa Barbara on August 3, 1923.[6]

One of her step-sons, Donald L. Monfort, was killed in World War II. Her husband died in San Diego, California on January 13, 1957, and was buried in Halcyon Cemetery, Halcyon, California.[7] Her other step-son, Gordon W. Monfort, died in Fresno in 1985.[8]

References

  1. ↑ Detwiler, Justice C. (editor), Who in California: A Biographical Directory 1928-29. San Francisco: Who's Who Publishing, 1929, page 306.
  2. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 57518045: May North Monfort
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  5. ↑ Detwiler, Justice C. (editor), Who in California: A Biographical Directory 1928-29. San Francisco: Who's Who Publishing, 1929, page 306.
  6. ↑ California State Library; Sacramento, California; Biographical Files.
  7. ↑ Find A Grave Memorial# 57517977: Nelson Monfort
  8. ↑ "California Death Index, 1940-1997," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VG15-RJD : 26 November 2014), Gordon W Monfort, 16 Aug 1985; Department of Public Health Services, Sacramento.
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