Gertrude Chandler Warner

The Mystery Girl - The Boxcar Children Mysteries Gertrude Chandler Warner

Brief Description: While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy. Brief Description: While helping run Jerry Taylor's general store, the Alden children investigate his mysterious employee Nancy.

Contributor Bio:  Warner, Gertrude Chandler Gertrude Chandler Warner was born in 1890 in Putnam, Connecticut, where she taught school and wrote The Boxcar Children because she had often imagined how delightful it would be to live in a caboose or freight car. Encouraged by its success, she went on to write eighteen more stories about the Alden Children.