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Beulah Marie Dix
1876–1970
A gifted storyteller who moved with ease from historical fiction to the early film industry, she wrote novels, plays, children's books, and dozens of screenplays. Her career stretched from prize-winning college work to Hollywood writing rooms, giving her an unusually wide place in American literary and screen history.
5 Audiobooks
Hugh Gwyeth: A Roundhead Cavalier
by Beulah Marie Dix
Soldier Rigdale: How He Sailed in the Mayflower and How He Served Miles Standish
by Beulah Marie Dix
The Turned-About Girls
by Beulah Marie Dix
Moloch : A play in a prologue, three acts and an epilogue
by Beulah Marie Dix
Merrylips
by Beulah Marie Dix
About the author
Born in Massachusetts in 1876, Beulah Marie Dix studied at Radcliffe College, where she graduated with honors and became the first woman to win the Sohier Literary Prize for a thesis. She began publishing historical fiction and soon built a reputation for lively storytelling, especially in work for younger readers.
Over time, her writing life expanded well beyond books. Dix wrote plays as well as screenplays for both silent and early sound films, with credits spanning more than fifty movies between the late 1910s and early 1940s. That range helped make her part of two different creative worlds at once: American literature and early Hollywood.
She died in 1970, but her career still stands out for its versatility. Whether she was writing novels, children's stories, stage work, or film scripts, she showed a talent for clear narrative drive and a willingness to work across forms long before that was common.