Grace May North-Monfort was born in Utica, New York, and between 1919 and 1931 wrote a number of books under her own name as well as her personal pseudonym, "Carol Norton." In addition to writing three volumes in the X Bar X Boys series for the Stratemeyer Syndicate, she also wrote a short series of western stories for young children, called the "Southwest Stories for Children," unpublished at the time of her death in San Luis Obispo, California.