Edith Ballinger Price

Edith Ballinger Price (1897–1997) was a prolific writer and illustrator of children's books, best known for the imaginative stories and illustrations she created for 37 different books and stories. The granddaughter of landscape painter William Trost Richards, who first inspired her to draw, Price trained at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, the New York Art Students League and the National Academy of Design.

Career Price's back list includes her first novel Blue Magic (1919), the Bottle Man (1920), Silver Shoal Light, The Happy Venture (1920), and My Lady Lee (1925). She also collaborated with other authors, including Margaret C. Getchell for the 1916 book Cloudbird, the dream-like adventures of a small girl named Dorothy Ann and the animals she meets.

Two years later, Price published Blue Magic, first in serialized form for St. Nicholas Magazine in 1918, then the following year for The Century Company. "She taught artistic autonomy at the school of the Art Association of Newport, of which she was a council member for twenty-eight years." She authored their first handbook, as well as several Girl Scout-related magazines, including the American Girl, Girl's Guide Gazette and Girls Today, and she served as the organization's national chair from 1925 to 1932. "Edward", "The Cruel Brother", "Gypsy Davey" and "Jamie Douglas", all of which can be heard online via the Helen Hartness Flanders Collection.

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