Gertrude Chandler Warner

Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where her family's house on Main Street stood across from the railroad station; she enjoyed watching the trains and imagined what it would be like to live in a caboose. Her father was a lawyer. She wanted to be an author from the age of five and made small handmade books as presents for her grandfather. Because of poor health she left high school, but she later took classes at Yale and taught first grade at a school in Putnam for many years, beginning during the First World War when teachers were scarce. She wrote The Boxcar Children, first published in 1924 and revised in 1942 as a book that beginning readers could manage, about four orphaned brothers and sisters, Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny Alden, who live on their own in an abandoned boxcar before being found by their kind grandfather. She wrote the first nineteen books of the series, which other authors continued after her death. She died in Putnam in 1979.

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