C. Bryson Taylor

Born in Washington, D.C., in 1880, C. Bryson Taylor was an American author who published under her initials rather than her full given name, Charlotte Bryson Taylor. Reference sources identify her as active from the late 1890s, and note that her fiction included historical work with elements that overlap with fantasy and weird fiction.

Her first novel, In the Dwellings of the Wilderness (1904), is the book most often mentioned in modern reference works. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction highlights it for its eerie premise and its connection to early speculative fiction, while library and public-domain catalogs also list Nicanor: Teller of Tales, a story set in Roman Britain.

Although biographical details are fairly sparse, the surviving record suggests a writer whose small body of work has outlived its era through reprints, library preservation, and continuing interest from readers of neglected genre fiction. She is generally listed as having lived from 1880 to 1936.