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Mabel Anne McKee
b. 1886
An early 20th-century novelist and journalist, she is best known for The Heart of the Rose, a 1913 story of family duty, growing up, and moral choice. The surviving record is sparse, which gives her work the feel of a rediscovered voice from another era.
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The Heart of the Rose
by Mabel Anne McKee
About the author
Mabel Anne McKee was an American writer active in the early 1900s. Reliable catalog and reference records connect her with the novel The Heart of the Rose, published in 1913, and identify her as both a writer and a journalist.
A surviving obituary record also indicates that she spent many years on the editorial staff of the Terre Haute Star, suggesting that newspaper work was a major part of her professional life as well as her literary one. That mix of journalism and fiction fits the tone of her known book, which centers on family relationships and moral development.
Some reference sources disagree on her birth year, listing either 1884 or 1886, so that detail is not fully certain from the material available here. Her death is consistently placed in 1954.