As a child she was taught in a one room school house.
She attended and graduated from Berwick Academy and then attended Bates College, being the first person in her family to pursue higher education.
In her fiction and non-fiction, Carroll wrote about what she knew and people that she loved: specifically, the Southern Maine rural community known as Dunnybrook in South Berwick, Maine.
Mississippi Carroll earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for her 1933 work, ''As the Earth Turns,'' the story of a long-established farm family in southern Maine and the Polish immigrants who buy neighboring land.
As the Earth Turns
A Few Foolish Ones
Neighbor to the Sky
Head of the Line
She grew up on the famil...