Caroline Ticknor

alt=Black and white photograph of Caroline Ticknor. She is seated at a table and looking down at an open book. Caroline Ticknor (1866–1937) was an American biographer and short story writer. She published biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, among others.

Personal life Ticknor was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1866. Her parents were Benjamin H. Ticknor, a bookseller, and Caroline Cushman Ticknor. Her paternal grandfather was William Ticknor, co-founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields.

Ticknor reportedly began writing at the age of eighteen.

Career In 1898, Ticknor became an editor of the International Library of Famous Literature. Cosmopolitan, and New England Magazine. Miss Belladonna; a child of to-day (1897) "The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl," The Atlantic (1901) Miss Belladonna; a social satire (1902) Washington's Surprising Ancestor (1908) editor, A poet in exile; early letters of John Hay (1910) Hawthorne and His Publisher (1913) editor, Some early letters of George William Curtis (1914) editor, Dr. Holmes's Boston (1915) Poe's Helen (1916) editor and compiler, New England aviators 1914–1918 : their portraits and their records (1919) Glimpses of Authors (1922) The "Old North" signal-lights, 1723–1923; or, Christmas comes to Boston (1923) Classic Concord, as portrayed by Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts (1926) May Alcott: A Memoir (1928, about Abigail May Alcott Nieriker)

Death Ticknor died in her home in Jamaica Plain, Boston on May 11, 1937.