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Laura Spencer Portor
1872–1957
An early 20th-century American writer and journalist, she moved easily between literary retellings, short fiction, and even science fiction. Her work shows a gift for making big ideas and classic stories feel inviting to everyday readers.
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 1872, Laura Spencer Portor Pope was an American journalist and author who published most often as Laura Spencer Portor. She wrote short stories and books of literary interpretation, including works that introduced major classics to general readers in a clear, accessible way.
She is also remembered for an unusual turn into speculative fiction: with Dorothy Giles, she co-wrote the novels The Valley of Creeping Men (1930) and Chattering Gods (1931) under the shared pseudonym Rayburn Crawley. That mix of journalism, literary guidance, and imaginative fiction gives her a distinctive place among early 20th-century American writers.
Portor Pope died in 1957. Although she is not widely known today, her career reflects a lively period in American publishing when authors often wrote across genres and for many different kinds of readers.