Two of her non-fiction works received awards from the National Science Teachers Association: Biography of a Rhino (1972) and Misunderstood Animals (1973).
[1] Her father was an attorney, who was a founder of the Detroit Public Library[2] and her mother was a playwright.
After graduating from Vassar College in 1927,[1] she moved to New York and worked as a secretary, writing in her spare time.
She also published children's non-fiction books under the name of Alice L. Hopf[6] on topics in natural history and entomology, and was a member of several New York-based scientific societies.
[2][7] Her non-fiction works, Biography of a Rhino and Misunderstood Animals received awards from the National Science Teachers Association in 1972 and 1973, respectively.