Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth was an American writer of fiction and poetry for children and adults.
10 Facts About Elizabeth Coatsworth
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Elizabeth Coatsworth was born May 31,1893, to Ida Reid and William T Coatsworth, a prosperous grain merchant in Buffalo, New York.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth attended Buffalo Seminary, a private girls' school, and spent summers with her family on the Canadian shore of Lake Erie.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth began traveling as a child, visiting the Alps and Egypt at age five.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth then traveled to eastern Asia, riding horseback through the Philippines, exploring Indonesia and China, and sleeping in a Buddhist monastery.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth died at her home in Nobleboro, August 31,1986.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth's papers are held in the Kerlan Collection at the University of Minnesota and Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, with a small archive from late in her career in the de Grummond Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.
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Elizabeth Coatsworth's first book was a poetry collection for adults, Fox Footprints, in 1912.
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Nineteenth-Century Children's Writers says "Elizabeth Coatsworth reached her apogee in her nature writing, notably The Incredible Tales".
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Elizabeth Coatsworth had a long career, publishing over 90 books from 1910 to her autobiography and final book in 1976.