Adele Garrison

Adele Garrison was the pen name of Nana Springer White (born in 1873), an American writer and journalist. Before her fiction reached a wide audience, she worked as a schoolteacher in Milwaukee and later moved into newspaper work, including editorial and reporting roles.

She is most closely associated with "Revelations of a Wife," a serialized story that began appearing in newspapers in 1915 and became widely read. Its appeal came from making ordinary domestic life feel suspenseful and intimate, giving readers a steady stream of emotional twists centered on marriage, family, and social expectations.

Although not as widely remembered today as some novelists of her era, her work was an important part of early twentieth-century popular fiction, especially the newspaper serial form that kept readers coming back day after day.