Elisabeth Ogilvie

Life

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 (130,000 m²) 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.

Series

Bennett Island Family

1. High Tide at Noon (1944, Thorndike Press, ISBN 0-7838-8554-7)
2. The Storm Tide (1945, Thorndike Press, ISBN 0-7838-8800-7)
3. Ebbing Tide (1947, Thorndike Press, ISBN 0-7838-8801-5)

1. Dawning of the Day (1954, Down East, ISBN 0-89272-464-1)
2. The Seasons Hereafter (1966, Down East, ISBN 0-89272-465-X)
3. Strawberries in the Sea (1973, Down East, ISBN 0-89272-466-8)

1. An Answer in the Tide (1978, Mcgraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-047664-0)
2. Day Before Winter (1997, Down East, ISBN 0-89272-429-3)

Other Series

1. Blueberry Summer (1956, Amereon Ltd, ISBN 0-88411-327-2)
2. The Fabulous Year (1958, Whittlesey House, ISBN 0-401-31181-3)

1. Weep and Know Why (1972, Mcgraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-047619-5)
2. Dreaming Swimmer (1976, Mcgraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-047598-9)

1. Jennie about to Be (1984, Mcgraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-047769-8)
2. World of Jennie G. (1986, Mcgraw-Hill, ISBN 0-07-047783-3)
3. Jennie Glenroy (1993, Down East, ISBN 0-89272-326-2)

Adult novels

Young-adult novels

Autobiography