Betty Cavanna (June 24, 1909 – August 13, 2001) was the author of popular teen romance novels, mysteries, and children's books for 45 years.
In 1957, she married George Russell Harrison, a writer and a dean of science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
[4] Like many novels for teen girls of the era (notably Rosamond du Jardin's and Anne Emery's, which are often discussed with Cavanna's), her plots favored romance and conformity.
[8] Cavanna wrote the Connie Blair books, a career and mystery series, as "Betsy Allen".
A friend of Cavanna's wrote the final book in the series in 1958, The Mystery of the Ruby Queens.