Eleanor Clymer

Eleanor Clymer was a writer of children's books, best know for The Trolley Car Family (1947). She was born in 1906 as Eleanor Lowenton and graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1928 with a degree in English. Between the years of 1943 and 1983 she published 58 books, including The Tiny Little House, My Brother Stevie, and Hamburgers–and Ice Cream for Dessert.[1]

Ms. Clymer died in 2001 at the age of 96. Her son, Adam Clymer, is a journalist with the New York Times.