Grace Noll Crowell (1877 - 1969)  was born in Iowa, then lived in Minnesota and Texas. Author of more than 30 books and some 5000 poems, she began writing as a child but didn't seriously pursue writing as a career until she became seriously ill in her thirties. That experience fueled a desire to write poems that might bring comfort and inspiration to others. Grace served as Poet Laureate of Texas for three years, was named a National Honor Poet, an American Mother of the Year, and an Outstanding American Woman and, in the early 1940s, was considered the most popular writer of verse in America.