Ruth Moore (1904 - 1989)

Genre: General Fiction, Children's Literature, Poetry

>Moore, who was born on Gotts Island, Maine, graduated from what is now the New York State University at Albany, and went on to author The Weir: A Novel of the Maine Coast (1943/1986; about two families on a small Maine island), Spoonhandle (1946; called "Deep Waters" when made into a movie), The Fire Balloon (1948), Candlemas Bay (1950; family life in a Maine coast town during 1947 and 1948), Jeb Ellis of Candlemas Bay (1952; children's book), A Fair Wind Home (1953; 18th-century New England coast), Speak to the Winds (1956; background of a Maine island where granite had been king), Cold As A Dog and the Wind Northeast: Ballads (1958; poetry), The Walk Down Main Street (1960), Second Growth (1962), The Sea Flower (1964), The Gold & Silver Hooks (1969), Time's Web: Poems (1972), Lizzie & Caroline, a novel (1972), The Dinosaur Bite (1976, children's), Sarah Walked Over the Mountain (1979), and The Tired Apple Tree: Poems & Ballads (1990).

Moore's letters are collected in High Clouds Soaring, Storms Driving Low: The Letters of Ruth Moore (1993), edited by Sanford Phippen.

The Univ. of Maine, Dept. of English, provides an extensive 1997 article on Moore, complete with footnotes, entitled "Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine."


Last Update: 06/04/2007

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