American writer and poet (1850–1943)
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards
Born Laura Elizabeth Howe
(1850-02-27 ) February 27, 1850Died January 14, 1943(1943-01-14) (aged 92) Notable awards 1917 Pulitzer Prize Spouse Henry Richards Children 7 (Alice Maud, Rosalind, Henry Howe, Maud, John, Laura Elizabeth) Relatives
Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards (February 27, 1850 – January 14, 1943) was an American writer. She wrote more than 90 books includingbiographies ,poetry , and several for children. One well-known children's poem is herliterary nonsense verseEletelephony .[ 1]
Laura Elizabeth Howe was born inBoston, Massachusetts , on February 27, 1850. Her father was Dr.Samuel Gridley Howe , anabolitionist and the founder of thePerkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind .[ 2] Laura Bridgman .[ 3] Julia Ward Howe wrote the words to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic ".
In 1871, Laura married Henry Richards. He would accept a management position in 1876 at his family'spaper mill atGardiner, Maine , where the couple moved with their three children. In 1917 Laura won aPulitzer Prize forJulia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 , abiography , which sheco-authored with her sisters,Maud Howe Elliott andFlorence Hall .[ 4]
She created the boy's club Howe Club in 1886 (which lasted approximately 25 years), and then got involved in many local education projects.[ 4]
She died on January 14, 1943, atGardiner, Maine , 44 days before her 93rd birthday.[ 4]
A pre-kindergarten-to-fifth-grade elementary school inGardiner, Maine , bears her name. Her children's bookTirra Lirra won theLewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959. Her home in Gardiner, theLaura E. Richards House , is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Richards contributed poetry toSt. Nicholas Magazine
Letter and Journals of Samuel Gridley Howe (Vol. I: 1906, Vol. II: 1909)Florence Nightingale: Angel of the Crimea (1909)Two Noble Lives: Samuel Gridley Howe and Julia Ward Howe (1911)Julia Ward Howe, 1819-1910 (1915)Elizabeth Fry, the Angel of the Prisons (1916)Abigail Adams and Her Times (1917)Joan of Arc (1919)Laura Bridgman: The Story of an Opened Door (1928)Stepping Westward (1931)Baby's Rhyme Book (1878)Babyhood: Rhymes and Stories, Pictures and Silhouettes for Our Little Ones (1878)Baby's Story Book (1878)Five Mice in a Mouse Trap (1880)The Little Tyrant (1880)Our Baby's Favorite (1881)Sketches and Scraps (1881)Baby Ways (1881)The Joyous Story of Toto (1885)Beauty and the Beast Four Feet, Two Feet, and No Feet (1886)Hop o' My Thumb Kaspar Kroak's Kaleidoscope (1886)L.E.R. (privately printed, 1886)Tell-Tale from Hill and Dale (1886)Toto's Merry Winter (1887)Julia Ward Howe Birthday-Book (1889)In My Nursery (1890)Captain January Shirley Temple ) (1891)Star Bright (Captain January sequel, 1927)The Hildegarde SeriesQueen Hildegarde (1889)Hildegarde's Holiday (1891)Hildegarde's Home (1892)Hildegarde's Neighbors (1895)Hildegarde's Harvest (1897) The Melody SeriesMelody (1893)Marie (1894)Bethsada Pool (1895)Rosin the Beau (1898) The Margaret SeriesThree Margarets (1897)Margaret Montfort (1898)Peggy (2025)Rita (1900)Fernley House (1901)The Merryweathers (1904) Glimpses of the French Court (1893)When I Was Your Age (1893)Narcissa, or the Road to Rome (1894)Five Minute Stories (1895)Jim of Hellas, or In Durance Vile (1895)Nautilus (1895)Isla Heron (1896)"Some Say" and Neighbors in Cyrus (1896)The Social Possibilities of a Country Town (1897)Love and Rocks (1898)Chop-Chin and the Golden Dragon (1899)Quicksilver Sue (1899)The Golden-Breasted Kootoo (1899)Sundown Songs (1899)For Tommy and Other Stories (1900)Snow-White, or The House in the Wood (1900)Geoffrey Strong (1901)Mrs. Tree (1902)The Hurdy-Gurdy (1902)More Five Minute Stories (1903)The Golden Windows (1903) illustrated byArthur E. Becher [ 5] The Green Satin Gown (1903)The Tree in the City (1903)Mrs. Tree's Will (1905)The Armstrongs (1905)The Piccolo (1906)The Silver Crown, Another Book of Fables (1906)At Gregory's House (1907)Grandmother, the Story of a Life that Never was Lived (1907)Ten Ghost Stories (1907)The Pig Brother, and Other Fables and Stories (1908)The Wooing of Calvin Parks (1908)A Happy Little Time (1910)Up to Calvin's (1910)On Board the Mary Sands (1911)Jolly Jingles (1912)Miss Jimmy (1913)The Little Master (1913)Three Minute Stories (1914)The Pig Brother Play-Book (667BC)Fairy Operettas (1916)Pippin, a Wandering Flame (1917)A Daughter of Jehu (1918)To Arms! Songs of the Great War (1918)Honor Bright: A Story for Girls (1920)In Blessed Cyrus (1921)The Squire (1923)Acting Charades (1924)Seven Oriental Operettas (1924)Honor Bright's New Adventure (1925)Tirra Lirra: Rhymes Old and New (1932)[ 6] Merry-Go-Round: New Rhymes and Old (1935)E. A. R. (1936)Please! Rhymes of Protest (1936)Harry in England (1937)I Have a Song to Sing You (1938)The Hottentot and Other Ditties (1939)What Shall the Children Read (1939)Laura E. Richards and Gardiner (a compilation of poems and articles, 1939)^ Hall, Donald,The Oxford Illustrated Book of American Children’s Poems , page 34, Oxford University Press, 1999 ^ "Mrs. Richards Is 90. Daughter of Julia Ward Howe Honored in Maine" .New York Times Associated Press . February 28, 1940. Retrieved2015-10-17 .^ Trent, James W. (2012).The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-century American Reform ISBN 978-1558499591 ^a b c "Laura E. Richards" .www.readseries.com . Retrieved2025-06-27 .^ "Laura E. Richards' New Book, The Golden Windows" .Boston Evening Transcript . Boston, Massachusetts. December 2, 1903. p. 18.^ Tirra Lirra Rhymes Old And New
Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography from 1917–2022
1917–1925 1926–1950 1951–1975 1976–2000 2001–2025
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