Josephine Lawrence

12 M–22 F

Josephine Lawrence was born in Newark, New Jersey, the daughter of a doctor and a retiring mother. As a child, she spent considerable time with a Quaker aunt who spoke the plain language and saw to it that she attended First Day Sabbath regularly. When one of her articles for the school newspaper won a $5 prize, she "resolved then and there to become an author." When she was in her teens, her family moved to Hopewell, where her father took up farming. Although she had planned to attend college, she was unable to master high school math, and decided instead to become a writer. She wrote stories for children's magazines, and articles for a farm journal. In 1915, she became editor of the children's page of the Newark Sunday Call, and she also wrote many of the short pieces published on the page. In 1918, she began edited the household page as well. In 1917, she interviewed Edward Stratemeyer, author of numerous boys' books and head of the Stratemeyer Syndicate. Her article, "The Newarker Whose Name Is Best Known," impressed Stratemeyer so much that he told her he would publish her work if she wanted to pursue writing children's fiction. In 1919, she ghostwrote Sunny Boy in the Country for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, as well as twelve of the thirteen further Sunny Boy books that followed, under the pdeudonym Ramy Allen White. She also wrote all seven of the Four Little Blossoms books under the pseudonym Mabel C. Hawley; all six of the Riddle Club books under the pseudonym Alice Da

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