Anna Goldmark Gross

Anna Goldmark Gross was an early 20th-century writer whose best-known surviving book is The Gnomes of the Saline Mountains: A Fantastic Narrative, published in New York by The Shakespeare Press in 1912. Library and public-domain records consistently credit the book to her, and modern readers can still find it through major digital archives.

The title pages and public-domain editions of The Gnomes of the Saline Mountains identify her as the author of The Whim of Fate and mention that she wrote numerous short stories and plays. That suggests a broader literary career, even though easily confirmed biographical details about her life are scarce in the sources available online.

What remains most accessible now is the tone of her fiction: a mix of fantasy, emotion, and storytelling shaped by the popular literary tastes of her era. For readers interested in overlooked writers from the early 1900s, her work offers a small but intriguing glimpse into that world.