Author: Josephine Lawrence
Alternate names: Alice Dale Hardy; C. Mabel Hawley; josephine lawrence; Ramy Allen White; Mabel C. Hawley; Alice B. Emerson; Helen Louise Thorndyke; Mabel C Hawley; mabel c. hawley; Josephine Josephine Lawrence; Mabel Hawley; Mabel C. Mabel C. Hawley; Allison Ramy White; ramy allison white; Helen Louise THORNDYKE; Helen Thorndyke; Thorndyke, Helen Louise, Pseud.; Ramy Allison White White; helen louise thorndyke; Ramy Allison Ramy Allison White; Ramy White
Born: 12 March 1889
Died: 22 February 1978
Bio: Josephine Lawrence was born in Newark, New Jersey. She wrote stories for children's magazines, and articles for a farm journal. In 1915, she became editor of the children's page of the Newark Sunday Call. In 1919, she ghostwrote Sunny Boy in the Country for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, as well as twelve of the thirteen further Sunny Boy books that followed, under the pdeudonym Ramy Allen White. She also wrote all seven of the Four Little Blossoms books under the pseudonym Mabel C. Hawley; all six of the Riddle Club books under the pseudonym Alice Dale Hardy; the first four Betty Gordon books under the pseudonym Alice B. Emerson, as well as books seven and nine a few years later; the first sixteen Honey Bunch books under the pseudonym Helen Louise Thorndyke.

She also wrote other children's stories: Brother and Sister series, Rosemary series, Elizabeth Ann series, Linda Lane series, Two Little Fellows series.