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Hildegarde Swift, born in 1890, is an American children's literature author. She is best known for her book The Railroad to Freedom. She has won the prestigious Newbery Honor in 1933.

=Biography= Hildegarde Swift was born in Clinton, New York on January 10 1890. Her father, Author S. Hoyt was an English Literature professor at Hamilton College. Swift had a different educational background than most. In her younger years she had private tutors and attended European boarding schools. Later she graduated from Auburn High School, moving on to graduate from Smith College. She continued her studies at the New York School of Social Work where she worked with children, which she credits gave her her "first real knowledge of children." She married Author L. Swift, a pastor from New York. In her later years she taught children's literature at the New School for Social Research. In 1929 she began to write children's books which she says has been the "most interesting" part of her life. Swift passed away in 1977, she had an obituary written about her in the New York Times.

=Legacy= Swift's book The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge has sold more than 400,000 copies. After the United States Coast Guard's plans to tear down the Little Red Lighthouse Swift's book was used by fans to help make the cite a national landmark. Eleanor Roosevelt praised Swift for admonishing young people to care for the wilderness in her writings

Works List

 * The Railroad to Freedom
 * The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
 * North star shining, a pictorial history of the American Negro
 * Little Blacknose: The Story of a Pioneer
 *  From the Eagle’s Wing: A Biography of John Muir