Arielle North Olson

Arielle North Olson, daughter of Newbery Honor winner Sterling North, is the children’s book reviewer for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She lives in Webster Groves, Missouri, with her husband, Clarence Olson, and they have three grown children and one grandchild. The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter is Mrs. Olson’s second book for children; her first, Hurry Home, Grandma! was published in 1984.