Marie McSwigan
(0 - 1962)
A dedicated writer, Ms. McSwigan wrote for Pittsburgh newspapers and worked in publicity for many area institutions. Besides ten children’s books, she wrote two adult biographies: Shy Hooks, the life of primitive painter John Kane, and Athlete of Christ, the life of St. Nicholas of Flue, Switzerland’s patron saint, and several other works of nonfiction.
Bibliography
The Children’s Hour Volume 13 (1953)
A collection of adventure tales.
Read online at archive.org.
Elizabeth Enright
William Heyliger
Astrid Lindgren
Marie McSwigan
Howard Pyle
Kate Seredy
Et al
Hardie Gramatky
Dorothy Bayley Morse
Henry C. Pitz
Kate Seredy
Armstrong Sperry
Et al
Collier’s Junior Classics Volume 4 (1962)
Eighteen stories set in different countries.
Marie McSwigan
L. M. Montgomery
Johanna Spyri
Edith Unnerstad
Hilda van Stockum
Et al
Maurice Sendak
Louis Slobodkin
Kurt Wiese
Et al
Roads to Adventure (1954)
An anthology of adventure stories.
Astrid Lindgren
Willis Lindquist
Marie McSwigan
Et al
Et al
Snow Treasure (1942)
The story of how Norwegian school children smuggled their country’s gold to America under the noses of the Nazis.