Margaret Peterson

Born in 1883, Margaret Peterson grew up in Bombay (now Mumbai) in a Scottish family. Her father, Peter Peterson, was a Sanskrit scholar at Elphinstone College, and that international background seems to have shaped the settings and mood of her fiction.

She moved to Britain in 1910 and soon began publishing novels. Her first book, The Lure of the Little Drum, won the 250-guinea Melrose Prize in 1913. She went on to write a steady stream of popular novels, and also used the pseudonym Glint Green for some of her crime fiction.

After her husband took a colonial service post, she also spent time in Uganda, and both India and East Africa appeared in her work. She died in Rudgwick, Sussex, in 1933, leaving behind a body of fiction that mixed romance, suspense, and a strong sense of place.