Alice Dalgliesh

Alice Dalgliesh was a naturalized American writer and publisher who wrote more than 40 fiction and non-fiction books, mainly for children. She has been called "a pioneer in the field of children's historical fiction". Three of her books were runners-up for the annual Newbery Medal, the partly autobiographical The Silver Pencil, The Bears on Hemlock Mountain, and The Courage of Sarah Noble, which was also named to the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award list.

7 October 1893

Born on the same birth day (7 October): Charlotte Perrelli • Chris Bambridge • Curtis Crider • Elizabeth of Luxembourg • Henriette Avram • Kevin Boyle (historian) • Mathias Dyngeland • Michelle Alexander • Mookie Betts • Nik Stauskas • Paulino Alcántara • Taylor Hicks • Wlodimir Ledóchowski • Yo-Yo Ma

Born in the same month (October 1893): Carol II of Romania • Charley Chase • Christopher Kelk Ingold • Cliff Friend • Ernst Öpik • George Ohsawa • Ip Man • Kurt Reidemeister • Leroy Shield • Lillian Gish • Lois Lenski • Luis Otero (footballer) • Meghnad Saha • Miloš Crnjanski • Mário de Andrade • Roland Freisler • Sidney Holland • Velvalee Dickinson