author
George Weston
1880–1965
A prolific magazine storyteller, he wrote brisk, imaginative fiction for popular American periodicals in the early 20th century and became especially known for stories like His First Million and Women. His work ranged from light fantasy to speculative tales, with an easy style that fit the era's big general-interest magazines.
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Mary Minds Her Business
by George Weston
About the author
Born in 1880, George Weston was a British-born writer whose family moved to the United States when he was young. He built a career in magazine fiction, publishing from the early 1900s into the 1940s and reaching readers through widely read outlets such as Everybody's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier's, Harper's Magazine, and Ladies' Home Journal.
Weston wrote across several popular styles, including mainstream fiction, light fantasy, and early speculative stories. Reference sources describe him as especially associated with pieces such as His First Million and Women, and his long magazine run suggests a writer who knew how to entertain a broad audience with clear plotting and lively ideas.
Today he is remembered less as a single famous-name novelist than as one of the dependable magazine authors who helped shape popular reading in the first half of the 20th century. That makes his work an interesting window into the tastes, humor, and imaginative storytelling of his time.