Grace Livingston Hill books in order

Grace Livingston Hill (1865-1947) was an American novelist who wrote more than 100 romantic novels with Christian themes and helped shape the inspirational romance genre.

She was born on 16 April 1865 in Wellsville, New York, and died on 23 February 1947. Her father, Charles Montgomery Livingston, was a Presbyterian minister, and her aunt Isabella Macdonald Alden was the popular author "Pansy". Her writing began early: Wikipedia records a first story in book form, The Esselstynes, published by D. Lothrop & Company in 1877, and A Chautauqua Idyl in 1887, while the New York State Literary Tree lists A Sevenfold Trouble (D. Lothrop, 1889).

Her novels typically combine a love story with a contest between good and evil and a character's return to faith. Besides her own name she used the pen name Marcia Macdonald. Much of her work was published by J. B. Lippincott, starting with According to the Pattern (1903) and including Crimson Roses and Blue Ruin (1928), The Prodigal Girl (1929), Kerry (1931) and Happiness Hill (1932). Other early publishers included the American Baptist Publication Society, which issued An Unwilling Guest (1902), the Golden Rule Company and Fleming H. Revell.

For collectors. Many of her novels first appeared as J. B. Lippincott editions, so a first edition of a title such as Crimson Roses or Kerry should carry the Lippincott imprint. Her earliest books came from D. Lothrop & Company in the 1870s and 1880s. Note that sources disagree on which book was her first, so cataloguers should cite the source they rely on.