Sorche Nic Leodhas

LeClaire Gowans Alger (May 20, 1898 – November 14, 1969) was an American author better known under her pseudonym Sorche Nic Leodhas, or simply Sorche Leodhas. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, she was a sickly child, eventually being homeschooled. Alger was a known librarian, working from 1915 to 1966, while the imaginary Sorche was a storyteller. She sought out traditional Scottish tales that had never been written down before. She won a Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1962 and a Newbery Honor for Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland in 1963. Her book Always Room for One More, illustrated by Nonny Hogrogian, won the 1966 Caldecott Medal.

Works

Most of Leodhas' works are in collections.

• Heather and Broom: Tales of the Scottish Highlands (1960), illustrated by Consuelo Joerns
• Thistle and Thyme: Tales and Legends from Scotland (1962), illus. Evaline Ness
• All in the Morning Early (1963), illus. Evaline Ness
• Gaelic Ghosts: Tales of the Supernatural from Scotland (1964), illus. Nonny Hogrogian
• Ghosts Go Haunting (1965)
• Claymore and Kilt: Tales of Scottish Kings and Castles (1967), illus. Leo and Diane Dillon
• Sea-Spell and Moor-Magic: Tales of the Western Isles (1968), illus. Vera Bock
• By Loch and by Lin: Tales from Scottish Ballads (1969), illus. Vera Bock
• Twelve Great Black Cats and Other Eerie Scottish Tales (1971), illus. Vera Bock

External links

• Sorche Nic Leodhas at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Sorche Nic Leodhas at Library of Congress, with 13 library catalog records
• Leclaire Alger at LC Authorities, with 5 records