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Laura Spencer Portor
1872–1957
A versatile early-20th-century American writer, she moved easily between journalism, short fiction, literary retellings, and even science fiction. Her work appeared in major magazines, and two later novels were published under the shared pseudonym Rayburn Crawley.
2 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
Adventures in indigence, and other essays
by Laura Spencer Portor
About the author
Born in Kentucky on February 4, 1872, Laura Spencer Portor Pope was an American journalist and author who usually published as Laura Spencer Portor. She wrote short stories and articles for magazines including Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Magazine, The Outlook, and The Dial.
She also published books of her own, including literary retellings such as Goethe's "Faust" Retold in Modern English and The Greatest Books in the World. A particularly unusual part of her career came later, when she co-wrote two science-fiction novels with Dorothy Giles—The Valley of Creeping Men (1930) and Chattering Gods (1931)—under the pseudonym Rayburn Crawley.
She married Francis Pope but continued to use Laura Spencer Portor professionally for most of her writing. Laura Spencer Portor Pope died in 1957.