author
Abbe Carter Goodloe
1874–1960
A Kentucky-born writer with a sharp eye for college life and social comedy, she published novels, short stories, poems, and plays across the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her work reached both readers and Hollywood, with one of her stories later adapted for the screen.
2 Audiobooks
College girls
by Abbe Carter Goodloe
Calvert of Strathore
by Abbe Carter Goodloe
About the author
Born in Versailles, Kentucky, Abbe Carter Goodloe came from a prominent family and later graduated from Wellesley College in 1898. She wrote broadly in several forms, including fiction, poetry, drama, and magazine work, and was also credited at times as A. Carter Goodloe or Carter Goodloe.
She is especially remembered for College Girls, a lively early novel illustrated by Charles Dana Gibson, as well as for other books such as At the Foot of the Rockies and Antinoüs. Her writing often moved between light social observation and more literary themes, showing an author comfortable with both popular and serious work.
Goodloe's reach extended beyond print. Her story Claustrophobia became the basis for the 1935 film I Live My Life, giving her work a place in early Hollywood as well as American literary culture. She died in 1960, leaving behind a varied body of writing that still offers a glimpse into the tastes and voices of her era.