Hildegarde Hoyt Swift

Hildegarde H. Swift (January 10, 1890 – January 10, 1977) was a writer of children's books. One of her books, Little Blacknose received the Newbery Honor Medal. She is best known for her book The Railroad to Freedom. She won the Newbery Honor in 1933.

Biography Hildegarde Swift was born in Clinton, New York on January 10, 1890. Her father, Author S. Hoyt was an English Literature professor at Hamilton College. In her younger years, she had private tutors and attended European boarding schools. She later graduated from Auburn High School, moving on to further her education and graduate from Smith College. She continued her studies at the New York School of Social Work where she worked with children, which she credits gave her, her "first real knowledge of children."

She married Arthur L. Swift, a pastor from New York. In her later years, she taught children's literature at the New School for Social Research. In 1929, she began to write children's books.

Swift died in Redlands, California on January 10, 1977. The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge, illustrated by Lynd Ward (1942) North Star Shining (1947) From the Eagle's Wing: A Biography of John Muir The Edge of April: A Biography of John Burroughs (1957)