Cornelia Miegs was an American children's author, and educator 1884-1973.
She began writing children's books while an English teacher at St. Katherine's School in Davenport, Iowa, where she worked between 1908 and 1913.[3] Her first book, The Kingdom of the Winding Road was published in 1915. Her book Trade Wind won the Little, Brown and Co., prize competition in 1927. She is best known for Invincible Louisa, a biography of author Louisa May Alcott, which won a Newbery Medal in 1934, and Swift Rivers, which was a Newbery Honor book in 1933. Both of these titles are still in print and may be found in many public libraries.