1. Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American writer and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children.
18 Facts About Alice Dalgliesh
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Alice Dalgliesh has been called "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction".
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Alice Dalgliesh eventually received a Bachelor in Education and Master in English Literature from the Teachers College at Columbia University.
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Alice Dalgliesh taught for 17 years at the Horace Mann School, while leading courses in children's literature and story writing at Columbia.
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Alice Dalgliesh regularly wrote about children's books for Parent's Magazine, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, and The Saturday Review.
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Alice Dalgliesh contributed to The Horn Book Magazine, including the article "In Mr Newbery's Bookshop", about John Newbery.
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Alice Dalgliesh worked with the textbook department at Charles Scribner and Sons editing social studies books.
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Alice Dalgliesh held the position of children's book editor until 1960.
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Alice Dalgliesh reviewed books for that magazine from 1961 until 1966.
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Alice Dalgliesh's papers are held at the University of Minnesota, Vassar College Library, and the Princeton University Library.
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Alice Dalgliesh began writing at the urging of Louise Seaman Bechtel, then a publisher at Macmillan, who published her second book, The Little Wooden Farmer in 1930.
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Alice Dalgliesh said this simple picture book was based on an old Pennsylvania tall tale.
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Alice Dalgliesh wrote over three dozen children's books, others for adults, and a great many articles and reviews of children's fiction.
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Alice Dalgliesh produced award-winning non-fiction, including several ground-breaking science and biography series.
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Alice Dalgliesh felt she had a calling to be a children's book editor and that her books had to be of the highest possible quality.
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Robert Heinlein's correspondence describes throughout two chapters of the book changes Alice Dalgliesh requested to Heinlein's books for Scribners to which Heinlein objected strongly.
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At one point, Alice Dalgliesh asked Heinlein to have "a good Freudian" look at his novels to point out what she thought undesirable psychosexual imagery in his work for juveniles.
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Heinlein wrote to his agent to complain that Alice Dalgliesh took the reviewer's side in her written reply to him, conceding the reviewer's complaints on every point.