Esther Louise Forbes (/fɔːrbz/; June 28, 1891 – August 12, 1967) was an American novelist, historian and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal.
In late December she began working for the editorial department of Houghton Mifflin Company in Boston.
Each of these were historical novels set in New England from colonial times through the early years of the Republic.
In 1947, she received the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer novel award of $150,000 for her then forthcoming book, The Running of the Tide, published in 1948.
In 1960, Esther Forbes became the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.
The royalties for her historical novels were donated to the American Antiquarian Society,[4] which also has the research notes on her unfinished work on witchcraft in early New England.
Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image.