Ruth Painter Randall (1892-1971) was an American biographer who specialized in the lives of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln and their immediate family.
She also wrote young adult books about early American women.
Eventually, she began writing about other historical subjects, including a biography about Elmer Ellsworth and a 1960s series of children's books about historical women, specifically Mary Todd Lincoln, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, and Jessie Benton Frémont.
[1] Randall died on January 22, 1971, at Burnham City Hospital in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.
[2] Randall's papers and correspondence are held in the collection of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.