Elinor De Wire

Elinor DeWire has been writing since childhood. She won a writing prize in fifth grade and a scholarship for excellence in English at high school graduation. She has written over twenty titles and more than 200 magazine articles on various subjects. She has been researching, photographing, and writing about lighthouses since 1972 and has visited more than eight hundred sentinels in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, New Zealand, and Australia. Former Coast Guard historian, Dr. Robert Scheina, calls her "America's most prolific lighthouse author and a driving force behind the recent upsurge in interest in preserving lighthouses and the history and nostalgia surrounding them."

DeWire also has written three books on amateur astronomy. She writes novels under her name and the pen name, J.J. Scott.

DeWire has been honored for her work by the U.S. Lighthouse Society, the American Lighthouse Foundation, the U.S. Coast Guard, and the National League of American Pen Women. Two of her books have won the coveted Ben Franklin Award and the Coast Guard Book Award. In 2015, the Coast Guard Thirteenth District presented DeWire with the Coast Guard Meritorious Public Service Award. In 2021 she journeyed to Guam to commission the high endurance cutter FREDERICK HATCH. She is the ship's sponsor.

She lived in the Puget Sound area of Washington for many years and taught at Olympic College. Today, she lives in Connecticut and is retired from teaching. She continues writing from an office that overlooks an oak and beech forest. Her desk is strewn with books and papers, where two lazy cats like to sprawl.

Read her bio on Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elinor_DeWire

Author Website: www.ElinorDeWire.com.

Author Blog: elinordewire.blogspot.com

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Twitter: @ElinorDeWire

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Lighthouse Books by Elinor DeWire:

Lighthouses Here & There

Guide to Florida Lighthouses

Guardians of the Lights: Stories of U.S. Lighthouse Keepers

The Lighthouse Keeper's Scrapbook

The Lightkeepers' Menagerie: Stories of Animals at Lighthouses

Lighthouses: Sentinels of the American Coast

Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic

Lighthouses of the South

Lighthouse Victuals & Verse

The Lighthouse Almanac

Sentries along the Shore

Field Guide to the Lighthouses of the New England Coast

The Lighthouses of Greece

The Lighthouse Activity Book for Kids

Florida Lighthouses for Kids

The DeWire Guide to Lighthouses of California, Oregon, & Washington

Astronomy/Sky Books:

Activities for Young Astronomers

Reach for the Sky

The Florida Night

e-Books:

The Funky Chicken: Memories, Truth & Trivia

Lighthouses of Georgia

Lighthouses of New Hampshire

Lighthouses of Pennsylvania

Sojourn at the Lighthouse

Under the Acacia Trees

Novels:

Under pen name J.J. Scott, these titles can be purchased in softcover or eBook format.:

Saving Lord M

Dr. Bellamy's Broken Wife

The Lord of Draig Nyth

Under the Acacia, by Elinor DeWire

Author Website:

www.ElinorDeWire.com

Author Blog:

elinordewire.blogspot.com