author
Camilla Kenyon
1876–1957
A little-known American writer of brisk, entertaining adventure fiction, best remembered for stories of treasure hunts and suspense. Her work has been preserved online, making it easy for modern listeners to rediscover an author who once appeared in popular magazines and early twentieth-century editions.
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Spanish Doubloons
by Camilla Kenyon
About the author
Camilla E. L. Kenyon (May 15, 1876 – September 25, 1957) was an American author whose known published work includes two novels and several shorter pieces. She is most closely associated with Spanish Doubloons, first published in 1919 and also serialized in Munsey's Magazine.
Her fiction leans toward lively adventure. Spanish Doubloons follows a treasure-hunting story on a Pacific island, while Fortune at Bandy's Flat adds to her small but distinctive body of work. Although she is not widely remembered today, her books still attract readers interested in early popular fiction and rediscovered women writers.
Much about her life remains lightly documented in standard reference sources, so her reputation now rests mainly on the surviving novels themselves and on digital library records that have kept her work available to new audiences.