Helen J. Ferris

(1890-1969) born at Hastings, lived in Lincoln and Ashland. Author and editor, served as editor-in-chief of Junior Literary Guild from 1929 to 1959, authored nine books, two of them with Eleanor Roosevelt, and edited almost 20 books for children, contributed articles and reviews to various magazines, and lectured. Consult Junior Book of Authors (1951) 121-123 and New York Times obituary, September 29, 1969, p. 47 and Something about the Author, Vol 21 (Gale, 1980) 39-43.

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