Louise Forsslund

Born Mary Louise Foster on March 13, 1873, she wrote under the name Louise Forsslund. The pen name came from her father's original surname before it was changed to Foster, and that family background appears to have influenced parts of her fiction.

Forsslund was an American author whose work appeared in the first decade of the 20th century. She published both novels and short stories, with stories appearing in magazines including Ladies' Home Journal.

She died on May 2, 1910, at only 37 years old. Because her career was so short, her writing offers a small but distinctive glimpse of popular American fiction from that period.