Alice Bertha Curtis (January 1, 1874 – April 19, 1956) was an American suffragist active with the National American Woman's Suffrage Association,[1] a college professor, author of two fictionalized childhood memoirs, Children of the Prairie (1938) and Winter on the Prairie (1945), and the writer of the short story "Wings of Mercy" that was adapted for the 1937 RKO movie The Man Who Found Himself.