Gertrude Chandler Warner (April 16, 1890 – August 30, 1979) was an American author, mainly of children's stories.

Albert Whitman & Company Retrieved and began writing in ten-cent blank books as soon as she was able to hold a pencil.

With her sister, Frances Lester Warner, she cowrote "Life's Minor Collisions," a series of essays about humorous conflicts of temperament among friends and families.

In 1962, she moved to a brown-shingled house, Jill C. Wheeler, Gertrude Chandler Warner, Abdo Publishing Co, and lived there with her companion, a retired nurse.

In her later life, before she died at age 89, Warner became a volunteer for the American Red Cross, a Cancer Society and other charitable organizations to help kids and adults in need from suffering.

Warner once said that she did much of her writing while convalescing from illnesses or accidents, and that she conceived the idea of The Boxcar Children while sick at home.

I would hang my wash out on the little back piazza and cook my stew on the little rusty stove found in the caboose.

[7] In her books, Warner "liked to stress the Aldens' independence and resourcefulness and their solid New England devotion to using up and making do.

"[8] Today, Albert Whitman & Company publishes the extremely popular series of Warner's original 19 stories.

[9] In 2020, Gertrude Chandler Warner's The Box-Car Children, the first book in the series went into the public domain.

[10] On July 3, 2004, the Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children Museum opened in Putnam, Connecticut.