Elizabeth Rider Montgomery

Elizabeth Rider Montgomery, also known as Elizabeth Julesberg, was an American writer of children's books, educational texts, and plays. She is most renowned as the co-author of Dick and Jane Basic Readers, a series of successful first-grade reading programs used by 80 percent of U.S. first-graders in the 20th century. She wrote over 70 books throughout her career. These included children's biographies of Chief Seattle, Henry Ford, and Walt Disney, the Story Behind... nonfiction series, and the adult novel The Builder Also Grows (1977).