Margaret Horton Potter

Born in Chicago on May 20, 1881, she was an American novelist who wrote mainly historical fiction. Sources also note that she used the pseudonym Robert Dolly Williams, and that her first novel, A Social Lion, appeared while she was still very young.

Her books include The Castle of Twilight, Istar of Babylon, The Fire of Spring, and The House of de Mailly. The titles alone show the kind of fiction she was drawn to: dramatic, romantic, and often set against richly imagined historical backdrops.

Her life was brief—she died on December 22, 1911, at just 30 years old—but she left behind a small body of fiction that still attracts readers of early twentieth-century historical romance and adventure.