F. M. (Frances Melville) Perry

Frances Melville Perry was an American author whose books appeared in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Records for her published work show a wide range of interests, including history, biography, composition, and usage.

She is associated with books such as Four American Inventors (1901), A Life of Theodore Roosevelt (1903), A Punctuation Primer (1908), and Story-Writing; Lessons from the Masters (1926). That mix suggests a writer interested both in explaining important people and events to general readers and in helping students become clearer, more confident writers.

Reliable biographical detail about her life is limited in the sources available here, so it is safest to remember her mainly through her books: straightforward, instructive works designed to inform and teach rather than to impress.