Caroline Ticknor
Caroline Ticknor was an American biographer and short story writer. She published biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and Abigail [May Alcott Nieriker], among others.
Personal life
Ticknor was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1866. Her parents were Benjamin H. Ticknor, a bookseller, and Caroline Cushman Ticknor. Her paternal grandfather was William Ticknor, co-founder of the publishing house Ticknor and Fields.Ticknor reportedly began writing at the age of eighteen. In 1904 Town and Country announced her engagement to Paul Van Dusen of New York, but she appears to have never married.