E. B. (Ethel Brigham) Leatherbee

E. B. Leatherbee, short for Ethel Brigham Leatherbee, was an American author active in the early 1900s. She compiled The Ancestors and Descendants of Luke Rogers and Sarah Wright Brown, a privately printed genealogy from 1907, and later wrote The Christian Mythology, published in 1915.

Her writing suggests wide-ranging interests. One book is careful and documentary, tracing family lines and New England connections, while the other takes on religion in a more argumentative, interpretive way. That contrast makes her stand out as a writer who was comfortable moving between archival detail and controversial public ideas.

Leatherbee has also been remembered for civic work in Boston. Library and audiobook records describe her as an author, editor, and composer, and note that she helped manage the Women's Municipal League campaign to rid Boston of rats. She died on October 25, 1955, and is buried in Newton Cemetery in Massachusetts.