author
Ethel Watts Mumford Grant
1878–1940
A witty early-20th-century American writer, she built a lively career across humor, fiction, poetry, and the stage. Her work is remembered for its playful sharpness and for the range of forms she tackled.
3 Audiobooks
Out of the Ashes
by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant
The Complete Cynic Being Bunches of Wisdom Culled from the Calendars of Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford, Addison Mizner
by Oliver Herford, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant, Addison Mizner
The limerick up to date book
by Ethel Watts Mumford Grant
About the author
Born in New York City, Ethel Watts Mumford Grant was an American author, playwright, poet, humorist, and illustrator active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Library and archival records describe her as a prolific writer, and contemporary bibliographies show that she published novels, sketches, plays, joke collections, songs, poems, and articles.
She is especially associated with smart comic writing and light verse. Her name appears on works such as The Limerick Up to Date Book, and archival sources also note that she studied art in Paris, which helps explain the visual side of her creative career as an illustrator and designer as well as a writer.
Sources differ on her exact birth year, but records consistently place her death in 1940. She is often listed as Ethel Watts Mumford, while some editions and catalogs use the fuller form Ethel Watts Mumford Grant.