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 until about 1910, when she moved west to Nevada, residing in Carson City. Subsequently she moved to Santa Barbara, California, where she eventually (August 3, 1923) married widower William Nelson Monfort.^[1]

Her step-son, Donald Monfort, was killed in World War II. Her husband died in 1957. She died July 23, 1960 at the age of 84 and was buried in San Luis Obispo, California USA. ^[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the X Bar X Boys series for adolescent boys and the Southwestern Stories for Children series for younger children (unpublished).^{[3] [4]}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

• Adele Doring of the Sunnyside Club (1919; Adele Doring, #1)
• Adele Doring on a Ranch (1920; Adele Doring, #2)
• Adele Doring at Boarding-School (1921; Adele Doring, #3)
• Adele Doring in Camp (1922; Adele Doring, #4)
• Adele Doring at Vineyard Valley (1923; Adele Doring, #5)

Virginia Davis series

• Virginia at Vine Haven (1924)
• Virginia's Adventure Club (1924)
• Virginia of V.M. Ranch (1924)
• Virginia's Ranch Neighbors (1924)
• Virginia's Romance (1924)

individual novels

• Meg of Mystery Mountain(1926)
• Nan of the Gypsies(1926)
• Rilla of the Lighthouse(1926)
• Bobs, a girl detective (1928)
• Sisters (1928)
• The Seven Sleuths’ Club (1928)
• The Phantom Yacht (1928)
• The Phantom Town Mystery (reprinted? 1933)
• Dixie Martin, The Girl of Woodford's Canyon (1924)

X Bar X Boys series

• The X Bar X Boys at the Strange Rodeo (1935; X Bar X Boys #14)
• The X Bar X Boys Hunting the Prize Mustangs (1937; X Bar X Boys #16)
• The X Bar X Boys at Triangle Mine (1938; X Bar X Boys #17)

References

1. California State Library; Sacramento, California; Biographical Files.

External links

• Works by Grace May North at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Carol Norton at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Grace May North at Internet Archive
• Works by or about Carol Norton at Internet Archive
• Works by Grace May North at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Grace May North, on the LibraryThing wiki—bibliography and basic bio.