ELISABETH OGILVIE grew up in Massachusetts but has lived in Maine since 1944. Thanks to her perennially successful writing career, she has been able to live and work on Gay’s Island for much of that time. Many of her novels are set on the Maine coast, including High Tide at Noon and subsequent novels in the multi-generational Bennett Island series.
Scotland is “the place I love best next to Maine,” Miss Ogilvie says, and her Jennie Trilogy spans both of these austerely beautiful lands, as Jennie’s fortunes bring her first to the Scottish Highlands then to the coast of Maine.
Woman’s Day, Redbook, and Good Housekeeping have all published Miss Ogilvie’s work, and her novel Storm Tide won the New England Women’s Press Association award in 1947. After more than forty books, she says, she can still do some writing “for fun.”