An author who wrote fiction and children’s books, Elizabeth Ogilvie was raised in Dorchester and Wollaston, Massachusetts. She spent summers with her family on the island of Criehaven in Maine. After graduating from North Quincy High School, she took a creative writing course at Harvard extension school, where she was “discovered” as a young author. She used her family vacations in Maine as the source of her stories, finally moving to Gay Island permanently. In all, she wrote 46 books, including the autobiographical work, My World Is An Island (1950), the multi-volume Bennett’s Island series, and the Jennie trilogy.
