Mary Mapes Dodge
Dodge, Mary Elizabeth Mapes
January 26, 1831 – August 21, 1905 (aged 74)
Birth place: New York City, New York, USA
American children's author & editor, best known for her novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. Edited the juvenile St. Nicholas Magazine from it's founding in 1873 until Dodge's death.