Dora van der Meiden-Coolsma

Theodora Hermina "Dora" van der Meiden-Coolsma (7 November 1918 – 19 June 2001) was a Dutch columnist and the author of children's fiction. She wrote 25 children's books. Seven of these were written together with Coos Covens. Two others were written under the pen name Constance Hazelager.
As the daughter, wife, and sister of Dutch Reformed ministers, and the granddaughter of the missionary Sierk Coolsma, most of her fiction was on Christian topics. Some books were set in Suriname where she had lived during the years 1951-1955. From Suriname, she wrote columns for the daily newspapers Nieuwsblad van het Noorden and the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant.
Dora Coolsma married ds. Jan van der Meiden on 1 July 1940. At the height of his career, he was the minister of the Grote Kerk, Dordrecht. They had four children, among whom the late historian and translator .