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Margaret Olivia Ensor Coolidge was a British and American writer and educator. She wrote many children's books including Greek Myths, her debut, and The Trojan War; Legends of the North; Men of Athens, one runner-up for the 1963 Newbery Medal, and Lives of famous Romans; and biographies of Eugene O'Neill, Edith Wharton, Gandhi, and Tom Paine.
Olivia Coolidge was born in London to Sir Robert Ensor, a journalist and historian. She earned a degree in Classics and Philosopohy at Somerville College, Oxford, in 1931 and a Master's degree in 1940. In Germany, England and the U.S. she taught Greek, Latin, and English. In 1946 she married Archibald C. Coolidge of Connecticut, who had four children.
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