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Lucile Foster Fargo, born in Wisconsin in October, 1880, was a writer and influential librarian. After attending Yankton College for two and a half years, she transferred to Whitman College and graduated with a B.A. in 1903 and then an M.A. in English and History in 1904. In college, she wrote extensively for each school's respective newspaper, often in the narrative fiction form. Shortly after receiving her M.A., she attended the New York State Library School for a year and then moved to Spokane in 1909 to run the North Central High School library. In 1926 she accepted a position as the assistant to the Board of Education for Librarianship of the American Library Association in Chicago. She was also the association's expert in school libraries. Later, she moved to Nashville to serve as the Director of Library School at Peabody College. Throughout her life, Fargo published several writings including "Seventeen and the Reference Librarian," "The Library in the School," "The Program for Elementary School Library Service," and "Spokane Story." Fargo died on July 6, 1962 in Berkeley, California.