author
Florence Finch Kelly
1858–1939
A trailblazing newspaperwoman, novelist, and reviewer, she built a long career at a time when journalism offered few openings for women. Her fiction and nonfiction alike drew on sharp observation, social questions, and decades in the literary world.
6 Audiobooks
With Hoops of Steel
by Florence Finch Kelly
Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories
by Florence Finch Kelly
What America did : A record of achievement in the prosecution of the war
by Florence Finch Kelly
Rhoda of the Underground
by Florence Finch Kelly
The Delafield Affair
by Florence Finch Kelly
The Fate of Felix Brand
by Florence Finch Kelly
About the author
Born in Illinois in 1858 and raised in Kansas, she studied at the University of Kansas, earning her A.B. in 1881 and later an A.M. Her early ambition to write led her into journalism, and she went on to contribute to the Boston Globe and other papers before establishing herself more widely as an author.
Over the course of her career, she published novels, short stories, and magazine pieces, while also taking part in feminist and suffrage circles. She is especially remembered for her long run at The New York Times, where she worked as a book reviewer from the early 1900s into the mid-1930s, helping shape literary coverage for a broad readership.
Her later book Flowing Stream: The Story of Fifty-six Years in American Newspaper Life reflects a remarkable life in print. She died in Connecticut in 1939, leaving behind work that connects American journalism, reform-minded thought, and popular fiction.