Martin Litvin (1928-2000) was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1949. After serving with the United States Army in Great Britain, he attended the University of Iowa Law School for one year and then settled in New York, where he acted as a correspondent for The Galesburg Post and the Knoxville Journal . He had several novels, biographies, and other works of nonfiction published.
Julia Fletcher Carney (1823-1908) was a writer, primary school educator, feminist, Universalist, and Boston-area resident. She achieved world fame for her poem "Little Things," written in 1845. Born in Lancaster, Massachusetts, and educated at Lancaster Academy, she became a teacher at the age of 21. In 1849, she married Universalist minister Thomas J. Carney, and the couple had nine children, four of whom died in infancy. Julia wrote many articles and poems for the religious periodicals of her denomination and the various periodicals of her day. She also wrote a series of Sabbath school instruction books which were used for many years in the liberal churches. A number of her verses were also set to music and used in worship services.
From the guide to the Litvin, Martin. Papers on Julia Fletcher Carney, 1843-1988., (Andover-Harvard Theological Library, Harvard Divinity School)
