Lucille Van Slyke

Born in New York in 1880, Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke was an American writer whose fiction appeared in magazines and in book form. She studied at Syracuse University and went on to build a career as a professional author at a time when magazine publishing gave many writers a wide national audience.

Her books included Eve's Other Children, Little Miss By-the-Day, and Nora Pays, and bibliographic records also show a long publishing trail beyond those titles. Some of her work reached the screen as well: she is credited as the writer of the 1920 silent film The Stolen Kiss.

Van Slyke is remembered today as part of the rich world of early 1900s American popular fiction, especially the kind of writing that bridged domestic stories, light romance, and magazine entertainment. Surviving library and reference records also connect her with a substantial body of shorter fiction, suggesting a writer who was active, versatile, and well suited to the reading tastes of her era.