Helen Dore Boylston Books in Order

Helen Dore Boylston is a renowned author, nurse, and humanitarian. She attended Portsmouth public schools and trained as a nurse at Massachusetts General Hospital, where she later taught nose and throat anaesthesia for two years. Boylston's wartime experiences with the Harvard medical unit, formed to serve with the British Army, profoundly shaped her life and writing. Her memoir, initially documented in a wartime diary, was published in the Atlantic Monthly after being discovered by Rose Wilder Lane. This marked the beginning of her illustrious writing career, which would go on to produce beloved series such as Sue Barton and Carol Page.