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Helen Dore Boylston
In addition to her Sue Barton and Carol Page series, Helen Dore Boylston also wrote numerous short stories and essays as well as Landmark Book, Clara Barton: Founder of the American Red Cross.
Ms. Boylston continued her nursing back at Massachusetts General Hospital serving as an instructor of anesthesiology as well as a department director; in New York City she worked as a psychiatric nurse; in a Connecticut hospital she served as a head nurse. In the late 1920s, Ms. Boylston turned her focus to writing.
Ms. Boylston's first book, Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse (1927), detailed her wartime experiences. In 1982, long after writing the Sue Barton and Carol Page series, Ms. Boylston and Ms. Lane published Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford, the diary of the two friends' 1926 European excursion in an automobile they named Zenobia.
About the Author
Helen Dore Boylston was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on April 4, 1895. She left her happy childhood home to attend first Simmons College in Boston, then Massachusetts General Hospital School of Nursing. After graduating in 1915, she enlisted in the Harvard Medical Unit and served as an anesthesiologist with the British Expeditionary Force in France during World War I. During her service, Ms. Boylston achieved the rank of captain. For the two following years, she did relief work for the Red Cross in Italy, Germany, Poland, Russia, and the Balkans. During this time she met Rose Wilder Lane, daughter of Laura Ingalls Wilder, and the two women became close friends.Ms. Boylston continued her nursing back at Massachusetts General Hospital serving as an instructor of anesthesiology as well as a department director; in New York City she worked as a psychiatric nurse; in a Connecticut hospital she served as a head nurse. In the late 1920s, Ms. Boylston turned her focus to writing.
Ms. Boylston's first book, Sister: The War Diary of a Nurse (1927), detailed her wartime experiences. In 1982, long after writing the Sue Barton and Carol Page series, Ms. Boylston and Ms. Lane published Travels With Zenobia: Paris to Albania by Model T Ford, the diary of the two friends' 1926 European excursion in an automobile they named Zenobia.