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Lois Gladys Leppard
Lois Gladys Leppard (1924 – October 5, 2008) was the author of the Mandie series of children's novels.〔( Lois Gladys Leppard papers, 1940-2007 at the South Caroliniana Library, USC )〕 Leppard wrote her first Mandie story when she was only eleven and a half years old, but did not become a professional author until she was an adult. Leppard has also worked as a professional singer, actress, and playwright. She studied at the New York School of Music and the Voice Beautiful Institute in New York. At one time, she and her two sisters, Sybil and Louise, formed a singing group called the Larke Sisters.〔(Mandie website: Author )〕
There are forty ''Mandie'' books in the main series, an eight-book junior series and several other titles. The eponymous heroine lives in North Carolina in the early 1900s, encountering adventure and solving mysteries with help from her friends, family, and pet cat, Snowball. These young reader novels are meant to teach morals as well as be fun and captivating stories to read. Leppard stated that her books contain "nothing occult or vulgar",〔(Mandie website, archived )〕 and Mandie is depicted as a faithful Christian. The ''Mandie'' books often deal with issues of discrimination and prejudice relating to race (particularly with regard to the local Cherokee), class, and disability.
Lois Gladys Leppard based some of the incidents in her Mandie books on her mother's experiences growing up in North Carolina.〔Author's note in the Mandie books〕 The dedication in the first book is: "For My Mother, Bessie A. Wilson Leppard, and In Memory of Her Sister, Lillie Margaret Ann Wilson Frady, Orphans of North Carolina Who Outgrew the Sufferings of Childhood".〔Dedication, ''Mandie and the Secret Tunnel'', 1983, Bethany House Publishers〕
== Books ==
The Mandie Series
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