name of author

HH Johnson · Jan 30, 2013

I spent an hour using google today trying to find the name of this author:

she was a best selling novelist, American, around and about
the year 1900, I think. she had a difficult personality and
got into public arguments with friends and foes alike.

does anyone know her name?

cornflake · Jan 30, 2013

HH Johnson said:
I spent an hour using google today trying to find the name of this author:

she was a best selling novelist, American, around and about
the year 1900, I think. she had a difficult personality and
got into public arguments with friends and foes alike.

does anyone know her name?

That's very, very vague.

I'll start the guessing with Mary Johnston? Though I'd argue the 'difficult personality' bit - for any woman of the era, honestly.

How will you know who's right?

Calla Lily · Jan 30, 2013

Did the author specifically write Christian fic? If not, I'll move this to bookclub, where the question will get a wider audience.

Lavern08 · Jan 30, 2013

The first person to pop into my mind is: Dorothy Parker, but I don't think she was known as a "Christian" writer. :Shrug:

HH Johnson · Jan 30, 2013

yes, a christian fiction novelist.

it's not dorothy parker or mary johnston

Calla Lily · Jan 30, 2013

Do you have any book titles? Even partial titles? The only female C-fic author I know of from around that time is Edna Lyall. I don't know a thing about her personality, though.

frimble3 · Jan 31, 2013

According to this: http://www.oocities.org/helenvict0r/Lyall.html
Edna Lyall is English, not American. No mention of her having a difficult personality, but she was apparently a supporter of 'free-thinkers', Home Rule, and Women's Suffrage. This, and her interest in politics, opposition to the Boer War, and similar, especially in her era, might have marked her as a woman of strong opinions, which frequently translates as 'difficult'.

Calla Lily · Feb 1, 2013

Thanks, frimble. I own one book of hers (We Two) and should've known she was English. It's overwritten and sopping with sweetness--but it skewers people who use religion as a weapon and its MC has one of the most realistic conversion experiences I've ever read.

Deb Kinnard · Feb 25, 2013

I can't think of anyone like that save for maybe Agnes Sligh Turnbull, but I never heard she was difficult to know.

Xalarik · Apr 6, 2013

Pearl Buck? Certainly was a very outspoken human rights activist, in case that counts as a "difficult personality".

name of author

HH Johnson

New kid, be gentle!

cornflake

practical experience, FTW

Calla Lily

On hiatus

Lavern08

Sit Down, and Shut Up!

HH Johnson

New kid, be gentle!

Calla Lily

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frimble3

Heckuva good sport

Calla Lily

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Deb Kinnard

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