Frances Boyd Calhoun

Frances Boyd Calhoun (née Boyd; December 25, 1867 – June 8, 1909) was an American writer and teacher in Tennessee. She authored the children's book Miss Minerva and William Green Hill, which has been a publishing success and has gone through more than fifty printed editions.

Biography

Frances Boyd was born on December 25, 1867, in Mecklenburg County, Virginia. Her grandfather was a prominent land owned in Occoneechee (now Occoneechee State Park) in Virginia. In childhood she lived in Warrenton, North Carolina, for two years, before moving in 1880 with her family to Covington, Tennessee. She graduated from Tipton Female Academy (also known as Tipton Female Seminary) in 1885.

Calhoun also had her poems published. Sequels to her book including Billy and the Major (1918) were written by Emma Speed Sampson.

She died on June 8, 1909, at age 41,