Camilla Kenyon

Born on May 15, 1876, and dying on September 25, 1957, Camilla E. L. Kenyon was an American writer best known for the novels Spanish Doubloons (1919) and Fortune at Bandy's Flat (1921). Her fiction leaned toward adventure and romance, often told through the voice of a young heroine.

Before and around those books, she also published shorter work in magazines. Her earliest known publication was the 1904 piece A Sierra Summer, and later she placed poems and stories in magazines including McClure's, Munsey's Magazine, and Sunset.

Kenyon does not seem to have left a large public record, which makes her surviving work feel especially distinctive. What stands out most is her gift for brisk storytelling: treasure hunts, peril, humor, and a sense of fun that still comes through more than a century later.