Biography:

College instructor, children’s writer. Born– Dec. 16, 1879, Talladega, Ala. Parents– W.A. and Mary Belle (Wadsworth) Knox. Education– Agnes Scott College; Columbia University. Childhood was spent largely on the estate of relatives in Sumter County, Ala. and in New York City. Taught 7 years at Mississippi State College. Her first book was on school activities, but she is best known for her children’s books.  Died July 1974.

Source:

American Authors and Books; Owen’s The Story of Alabama; files at the Birmingham Public Library.

Publication(s):

The Boys and Sally Down on a Plantation. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

Cousins’ Luck in the Louisiana Bayou Country. New York; Macmillan, 1940.

Footlights Afloat. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1937.

Gray Caps. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1932.

Marty and Company on a Carolina Farm. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1933.

Miss Jimmy Deane and What Happened at Pleasant Meadows. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

Patsy’s Progress. New York; Dodd Mead, 1935.

School Activities and Equipment. Boston; Houghton Mifflin, 1927.

The Step Twins. Garden City, N.Y.; Doubleday, Doran, 1938.

Papers;

A collection of the papers of Rose Bell Knox is held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.