{{short description|American biographer (1866–1937)}} alt=Black and white photograph of Caroline Ticknor. She is seated at a table and looking down at an open book.|thumb|Photograph of Caroline Ticknor from her book ''Glimpses of Authors'' (1922) '''Caroline Ticknor''' (1866–1937) was an American biographer and short story writer. She published biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Abigail May Alcott Nieriker, among others.
== Personal life == Ticknor was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1866. Her parents were Benjamin H. Ticknor, a bookseller, and Caroline Cushman Ticknor. Her paternal grandfather was William Ticknor, co-founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Ticknor, Caroline |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/news-wires-white-papers-and-books/ticknor-caroline |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=|first=|date=1937-05-12 |title=Caroline Ticknor, Author and Editor; Boston Publisher's Descendant Dies – One of Her Last Books Was 'May Alcott' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1937/05/12/archives/caroline-ticknor-author-and-editor-boston-publishers-descendant.html |access-date=2022-12-06 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
Ticknor reportedly began writing at the age of eighteen.<ref name=":0" /> In 1904 ''Town and Country'' announced her engagement to Paul Van Dusen of New York, but she appears to have never married.<ref>{{Cite journal |date=January 9, 1904 |title=Town and Country Calendar |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/2080724588 |journal=Town and Country |volume=58 |issue=44 |page=3 |id={{ProQuest|2080724588 }}}}</ref>
== Career == In 1898, Ticknor became an editor of the International Library of Famous Literature.<ref name=":1" /> In addition to books, Ticknor also published short stories in several magazines, including ''The Atlantic'',<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Ticknor |first=Caroline |date=1901-07-01 |title=The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1901/07/the-steel-engraving-lady-and-the-gibson-girl/636288/ |access-date=2022-12-06 |website=The Atlantic |language=en}}</ref> ''Cosmopolitan'', and ''New England Magazine''.<ref name=":0" />
=== Bibliography ===
* ''A hypocritical romance, and other stories'' (1896)<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |title=Caroline Ticknor (Ticknor, Caroline, 1866–1937) {{!}} The Online Books Page |url=https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book//lookupname?key=Ticknor,%20Caroline,%201866-1937 |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu}}</ref> * ''Miss Belladonna; a child of to-day'' (1897)<ref name=":3" /> * "[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1901/07/the-steel-engraving-lady-and-the-gibson-girl/636288/ The Steel-Engraving Lady and the Gibson Girl]," ''The Atlantic'' (1901)<ref name=":2" /> * ''Miss Belladonna; a social satire'' (1902)<ref name=":3" /> * Washington's Surprising Ancestor (1908) * editor, ''A poet in exile; early letters of John Hay'' (1910)<ref name=":3" /> * ''Hawthorne and His Publisher'' (1913) * editor, Some early letters of George William Curtis (1914) * editor, Dr. Holmes's Boston (1915) * ''Poe's Helen'' (1916) * editor and compiler, ''New England aviators 1914–1918 : their portraits and their records'' (1919) * ''Glimpses of Authors'' (1922) * ''The "Old North" signal-lights, 1723–1923; or, Christmas comes to Boston'' (1923) * ''Classic Concord, as portrayed by Emerson, Hawthorne, Thoreau and the Alcotts'' (1926) * ''May Alcott: A Memoir'' (1928, about Abigail May Alcott Nieriker)
== Death == Ticknor died in her home in Jamaica Plain, Boston on May 11, 1937.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />
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