Catherine O'Neill Grace

Catherine O’Neill Grace is a writer and editor, a former elementary, middle, and high school teacher, and a former editor of Independent School magazine. For fifteen years, she wrote a Washington Post column on health and psychology for young readers. She is the author of nonfiction books for children, including 1621: A New Look at Thanksgiving, written with Margaret M. Bruchac.

Grace also co-authored Best Friends, Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Children with psychologist Michael Thompson and Lawrence J. Cohen. The book examines children’s friendships and social development from early childhood through adolescence.