Eliza Orne White (August 2, 1856 – January 23, 1947) was an American writer.

Eliza Orne White was born on August 2, 1856 in Keene, New Hampshire.

[1] At the age of eleven, she went to a reading given by Charles Dickens, who read from The Pickwick Papers and The Death of Little Nell; this event remained in White's memory even years later when Bertha Mahony interviewed White for an article in The Horn Book Magazine.

She later attended Miss Hall's School for Girls in Roxbury, Massachusetts, for a year.

[6] For the last thirty years of her life, starting around 1915,[5] White was blind and mostly deaf.