Mary Alice Faid (21 January 1897 – 14 January 1990), was a Scottish writer of children's books, mostly religious fiction, and of adult fiction.^[1][2][3]

Personal life

Mary Alice Faid was born in Greenock, Scotland, in 1897.^[1] Her father was a butcher.^[1] She may have attended the University of Glasgow.^[4] She married Alexander Carson Dunn in 1923 in the Primitive Methodist Church; he was a teacher.^[1] She died in Helensburgh, Scotland, in 1990.^[1]

Faid is best known for the Trudy series of ten books for children.^[1] These take the eponymous heroine from school age to adult life, with an emphasis on her involvement with the evangelistic movement and urban missions.^[1] As well as Faid's prolific output of romantic novels, she also wrote stories for women's magazines.^[5] She published as both Mary Alice Faid and Mary Faid.

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