Gladys Taber was born on April 12, 1899 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She got a Bachelors degree at Wellesley College in 1920 and a Masters at Lawrence College the following year. She taught English and Writing at Lawrence College, Randolph-Macon Women’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia, and at Columbia University from 1921 to 1926. As time went on, writing began to take up all of her time. Gladys got short stories published in most major magazines in America. She also had a few different weekly columns in magazines and newspapers, including her “Diary of Domesticity” in the Laidies’ Home Journal, begun in November 1937. Gladys also wrote the “Butternut Wisdom” column for the magazine Family Circle from 1959 to 1967. After her parents had died, Gladys’ family consisted of her husband, Frank Taber, and her daughter Constance. In 1943, the Tabers and their friends, Eleanor and Max Mayer, bought a 17th century farmstead in Connecticut, which they called “Stillmeadow.” At first, it was only a part-time country house, but soon they began living there full-time. Gladys Taber enjoyed the outdoors, writing, and her pets. She kept cocker spaniels, Irish setters, and Siamese, Abbysinian and Manx cats. This amazing woman wrote over fifty books in her life, and lived at Stillmeadow until her death on March 11, 1980. She was a well-known and well-respected author, and her memory lives on at Stillmeadow, the place that inspired so many of her acclaimed novels.