author
Mae Van Norman Long
Best known for the 1917 novel The Wonder Woman, this early 20th-century writer left behind a small but intriguing footprint in adventure fiction. Her work centers on a capable, resilient heroine and still circulates today through major public-domain archives.
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The wonder woman
by Mae Van Norman Long
About the author
Very little biographical information could be confirmed about Mae Van Norman Long from reliable sources available online. What can be verified is that she is credited as the author of The Wonder Woman, a novel first published in 1917 and now preserved in Project Gutenberg.
That surviving book suggests an author interested in outdoor adventure and a strong female lead, with the story framed around endurance, courage, and life in the wilderness. Even with so few documented personal details available, her name remains attached to a work that continues to reach new readers more than a century after publication.
Because so little confirmed background information is readily available, Mae Van Norman Long is best approached through her fiction itself. For many readers, that gives her work an added sense of mystery: a little-known author whose voice has outlasted the era in which she published.