Sarah Schoonmaker (Tuthill) Baker (1824- 1906) was a prolific American author who also wrote under the pseudonyms C. E. Bowden, Aunt Friendly and Mrs. Woods Baker. She wrote many books for children during the late nineteenth-century, including: Christian Effort (1850), The Christian Year for Children (1850), Timid Lucy (1851), Smiles and Frowns for Good and Bad Little Children (1852), The Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and her Charge (1859), Hatty and Marcus; or, First Steps in the Better Path (1859), The Orange Seed (1859), Meggie of "The Pines" (1860), Aunt Friendly's Picture Books (1860-1869), The Jewish Twins (1861), The Woodman's Nannette (1862), Kelly Nash; or, "I Didn't Think" (1863), The Children on the Plains: A True Story (c1865), Golden Links (1867) and Aunt Friendly's Nursery Keepsake (1870).