Dolores Marbourg

Born Mary Schell Hoke on November 20, 1870, in Atchison, Kansas, she later became known as Dolores Bacon and used Dolores Marbourg as a professional name. Sources available for this profile describe her as an American writer, reporter, actress, and playwright.

Her career appears to have crossed several fields. She worked as a reporter for Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World, and bibliographic records also connect her with fiction, including the 1891 novel Juggernaut: A Veiled Record, written with George Cary Eggleston. She is especially remembered as an author of children’s books.

She died in 1934. While the surviving public record is fairly brief, it shows a writer with an unusually varied career, equally at home in newspapers, on the stage, and in popular literature.