Ruth Sexton Sargent (1920 - )

Genre: Non-Fiction, Children's Literature

Ruth Sargent, who lives on Peaks Island (off of Portland), began her career as a photo-journalist for the Portland newspapers and is credited with ten published books and over 125 published magazine and newspaper articles. Her speaking availability and contact information is available online.

Books for children include:

• Abbie Burgess: Lighthouse Heroine (1969/1987/1992; with Dorothy Holden Jones)
• The Littlest Lighthouse (1981; illus. Marion C. Litchfield)
• The Nautical Alphabet (1984)
• Always Nine Years Old; Sarah Orne Jewett's Childhood (1985)
• The Island Merry-Go-Round (1988; illus. Pam DeVito)
• Five Girls Aboard the Mayflower's Voyage to Freedom (1989)
• The Tunnel Beneath the Sea (1993; illus. Peter Gorski and Pam DeVito)

Books for adults include:

• Island Living is Great (1976; a collection of 36 published articles)
• Gail Laughlin, ERA Advocate (1979)
• How To Do A "Who Dun It?" (1991, 24 pp.)
• The Casco Bay Islands (compiler, 1995)

Last Update: 07/30/2007

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