Jean Bingham Wilson

Jean Bingham Wilson is a scarce figure in the historical record, but her work survives. She is credited alongside Marian Hurd McNeely as co-author of When She Came Home from College, a novel first published in 1909 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and other library-style book databases.

Because reliable biographical information about her is limited in the sources available online, it is safest to describe her as an early twentieth-century American novelist whose known legacy rests mainly on that collaborative book. The novel's continued circulation in reprint, ebook, and archive form has helped keep her name visible even though personal details about her life are hard to confirm.

That makes Wilson one of those authors remembered less through a large public biography than through the endurance of a single surviving work. For readers interested in period fiction, her name is closely tied to the world of college-life storytelling that appealed to readers of her era.