Gertrude Chandler Warner or the author of the Boxcar Childern, grew up in a middle class home. She is famous for writing The Boxcar Childern Mysteries. She had a kind face and was very creative. Her very first book was made at age 9 and it was called Golliwog at The Zoo. As a child she lived near a railroad station and she always wondered what it would be like to live in a boxcar. We are very alike in two ways, we both like mysteries and we both want or wanted to live in unusual places. We are different in one way because she lived near a railroad and I live in a neighborhood near my school. Some interesting things I found out was that she had 2 siblings John and Frances Warner, she playedthe cello, her favorite book was Alice in Wonderland, and her favorite flower was a violet (the name of her 10 year old character Violet Alden).