Susan Coolidge, the pen name for Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (1835–1905), was an American children's author renowned for her late 19th-century series of novels featuring the Carr family. Born into a wealthy and influential family in Cleveland, Ohio, Coolidge was the daughter of John Mumford Woolsey and Jane Andrews and niece to the poet Gamaliel Bailey. Her upbringing, amidst an environment of intellec...