Word: grosset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First Royalties. Last week the author of The Little Engine was no longer anonymous. Grosset & Dunlap signed a contract with Mrs. Frances M. Ford of Philadelphia, recognizing her as the author of the tale. The recognition came late: Author Ford is looking forward to celebrating her zooth birthday in March. Grosset & Dunlap will publish a new edition of The Little Engine That Could with Mrs. Ford's name on the cover, and she will receive the first royalties she ever got for her famed story...
...named Mabel Bragg looked back in its records to find that Miss Bragg had never claimed to be doing anything more than retelling another author's story. But publishers were reluctant to take sides; they continued to turn out authorless Little Engines. Months of literary detective work convinced Grosset & Dunlap that Mrs. Ford's claim was valid...