Gerald Verner was one of the many pen names used by John Robert Stuart Pringle (1897-1980). Other pseudonyms were Thane Leslie, Derwent Steele, Donald Stuart, and Nigel Vane. Donald Stuart was the name he used initially, writing 44 stories for the Sexton Blake Library...
Sheila Pim (1909–1995) was an Irish novelist and horticulturalist. She wrote four witty crime novels and three serious novels along with a biography of Irish botanist Augustine Henry. She also was an enthusiastic cultivator of flowers and vegetables and wrote...
Mary Jane Latsis (1917-1997) and Martha Henissart (1929-?) met at Harvard, where Latsis was taking graduate classes in economics and Henissart was attending law school. While they pursued careers in their respective fields in the early 1960s, their shared appreciation...
Lucy Beatrice Malleson (1899-1973) was a British author most well known for her creation of Arthur G. Crook, an entertaining beer-drinking lawyer whose ethics do not always align with those of other attorneys. Crook had some 50 adventures published under the pseudonym...
Elizabeth Tebbetts-Taylor (1917-2001) was a U.S. author from the West Coast. Born in Oregon, she spent most of her life in southern California. She wrote film scripts, short stories, and novels. Her most well-known novel was Tarifa, published by Dell in 1978. She...
