author
Margaret Lynn
1870–1958
A writer and professor with ties to Kansas literary life, she published short fiction in major magazines and later became known for novels of mystery and suspense. Her work ranges from early magazine pieces to books that kept finding new readers well into the mid-20th century.
1 Audiobook
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Margaret Lynn was an American writer and teacher associated with Lawrence, Kansas. Reliable catalog and reference pages connect her with the University of Kansas as a professor of English, and surviving bibliographic records show that she published both short fiction and longer works over many years.
Her shorter pieces appeared in outlets including The Atlantic Monthly in 1912, and book records link her to fiction such as Free Soil (1920). Later bibliographies also credit her with mystery and suspense novels including To See a Stranger and Whisper of Darkness, suggesting a career that moved from literary magazine work into popular fiction.
Some details of her life remain hard to pin down consistently across sources, so a few dates and biographical specifics are uncertain. Even so, the available record shows a versatile author whose writing stretched across genres and decades.