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Gloria Goddard
1897–1978
Best known for fast-moving wartime adventures, this American writer created the Susan Merton stories under the pen name Louise Logan. She also wrote and collaborated on books that ranged from novels to games and entertaining guides.
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Womanhood : The facts of life revealed to women
by Gloria Goddard
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in 1897, Gloria Goddard was an American writer whose work appeared under several names, including Louise Logan. Library catalogs and Project Gutenberg list her with a wide spread of titles and aliases, showing a career that moved across popular fiction and practical, entertainment-focused books.
She is most closely linked with the Susan Merton series, written as Louise Logan. Those World War II adventures followed a nurse drawn into espionage work, giving her fiction a brisk mix of suspense, danger, and wartime drama. Reference sources also connect her to writer Clement Wood, whom she married in 1926, and note that they worked together on some books.
Goddard died in 1978. Although biographical details about her life are fairly scarce in easily available sources, the surviving record of her books suggests a versatile, hardworking author who wrote for general readers and knew how to keep a story moving.