Josephine Lawrence

She wrote 51 such volumes between 1920 and 1935, for series including Betty Gordon, Honey Bunch, Sunny boy " and the Riddle Club.

[4][5][6][7]She later wrote novels for adults, including Glenna (1929), Head of the Family (1932), Years Are So Long (1934) — which was made into a movie Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) — If I Have Four Apples (1935), Sound of Running Feet (1937) and Bow Down to Wood and Stone (1938).

Her novels covered the troubles of middle class people during the depression and were both critically praised and sold well at the time they came out, but have been less well known by 21st century readers.

[9][10] Years Are So Long is among a set of films from two eras in the 20th century that reflect cultural conflicts around aging and femininity that helped to reinforce elder advocacy in American social policy and legislation.

[11] The novel, described as “one of her more enduring works (out of approximately one hundred children's books and thirty-five social problem books for adults),”[12] was treated to an annotated edition in 2012, A Critical Edition of Josephine Lawrence's "Years Are So Long" (1934): A Novelistic Portrayal of Adult Children with Their Elderly Parents during the American Great Depression.