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Hélène Adeline Guerber (March 9, 1859 – May 26, 1929), also known as H.A. Guerber, was an American writer, specializing in retellings of myths, plays, operas, and history, as well as being a professional teacher.
Although several books by Guerber are still in print, details about her life are scant. There are entries for her in three or four biographical sources from the early 1900s, but apart from listing the books she wrote, these sources provide almost no facts about her life. These book sources are supplemented by two short death notices and six census records (five federal and the 1892 New York state). Even the scant information is sometimes conflicting. So even though Guerber published over two dozen books in her lifetime, she is almost entirely forgotten as a person.
Family
According to her death announcement which appeared in the Publishers Weekly in 1929, Guerber was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan on March 9, 1859. Census records list her father as Arnold S. Guerber, born in 1830 in Italy to Swiss parents, and her mother as Emma Guerber, also born in 1830 and of Swiss nationality. Arnold arrived in America in 1845, and Emma in 1853. In 1900 they had been married for 47 years, so they must have gotten married in 1853, the year Emma arrived in America.
Arnold Guerber held various jobs. In 1870 he was an importer of straw goods, in 1880 he was a farmer, and in 1892 and 1900 (when he was 70), he was a real estate broker. The Guerber family appeared well-off. In 1870, when Arnold was 40, he owned real estate valued at $14,000 and personal property valued at $3,000. According to the censuses of 1870, 1900 and 1910, the family also kept a domestic servant.
