[Gutenberg 15029] • Kit of Greenacre Farm

Izola Louise Forrester nee Wallingford (1878-1944) was an American author. After her mother s death in 1892, she was adopted by Harriet and George Forrester, by whom she was privately educated. In 1899 she married artist Reuben Robert Merrifield, and had five children by him. In 1913 she married author and dramatist Mann Page, and had three children by him. Forrester wrote for numerous publications, including the Chicago Tribune, the Chicago Record-Herald and the Chicago Daily News until 1901, and for the New York World, 1901-1914. She also collaborated with Mann Page on 35 original motion picture feature stories. Amongst her books are: The Girls of Bonnie Castle (1900), Rock s Nest (1901), Us Fellers (1907), Those Preston Twins (1910), The Polly Page Series; The Polly Page Yacht Club (1910), The Polly Page Ranch Club (1911), The Polly Page Motor Club (1913) and The Polly Page Camping Club (1915), the Greenacre Girls Series; Greenacre Girls (1915), Jean of Greenacres (1917) and Kit of Greenacre Farm (1919), The Dangerous Inheritance (1920), Jack O Lantern (1927) and The Door in the Mountain (1928). Her most noted book, This One Mad Act (1937), describes Forrester s own childhood.