Josephine Lawrence

12 March 1889 – 22 February 1978

Josephine Lawrence was born in Newark, New Jersey. 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. 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 Dale Hardy; the first four Betty Gordon books under the pseudonym Alice B. Emerson, as well as books seven and nine a few years later; the first sixteen Honey Bunch books under the pseudonym Helen Louise Thorndyke. She also wrote other children's stories: Brother and Sister series, Rosemary series, Elizabeth Ann series, Linda Lane series, Two Little Fellows series.