Alice Low
, 1926 - 2012
Alice Low (b. 1926, New York) was an American children’s author, editor and teacher. In 1947, she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Smith College, and attended Columbia University from 1956–1958. She married film studio owner Martin Low in 1949, and they had three children. Her first children’s book, Open Up My Suitcase, was published in 1954. She is particularly known for her picture book The Witch Who Was Afraid of Witches (1978), which she turned into a New York play in 1993. Subsequently, it was made into an animated film by Learning Corporation of America. Witches are a common theme in Low’s work. In her later career she was also an editor, editorial consultant, teacher of creative writing and maker of educational filmstrips.
Low enjoyed singing and playing tennis. She also volunteered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She said about herself "Painting and ceramics were my first interests. I still sing in a local chorus. Travel stimulates, and many a line has come to me on a tennis court." At the time of the publication of her classically-themed book Book of Greek Gods and Heroes, she lived in Briarcliff Manor, New York.
Sources:
Biographical note at back of Alice Low 1985. The Macmillan Book of Greek Gods and Heroes. New York: Macmillan;
Scholastic (accessed: August 5, 2020);
Biography J Rank (accessed: August 5, 2020);
Speculative Fiction Database (accessed: August 5, 2020).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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