Helen Knipe Carpenter (December 6, 1881 – February 15, 1959) was an illustrator and writer active in the early 20th century noted for her Art Nouveau illustrations and her adaptations of stage plays to novels.
[1] Born Helen Alden Knipe on December 6, 1881, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a granddaughter of the novelist T. S. Arthur,[2] she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under the tutelage of William Merritt Chase, Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Thomas Pollock Anshutz.
[1][3] She married writer, playwright, and director Edward Childs Carpenter on June 1, 1907, in Philadelphia[4][2] where they lived and worked for a number of years, summering in Connecticut.
[6] Carpenter died on February 15, 1959, in Litchfield, Connecticut.
She and her husband Edward Childs Carpenter are interred in Town Hill Cemetery in New Hartford, Connecticut.