Martha Evans Martin

Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, she studied at DePauw University and worked as a teacher and later as a court reporter before moving into newspaper work. Sources also describe her as an associate editor of the Richmond Daily Telegram, a paper she and her husband, Edwin Campbell Martin, published together for about a decade.

She is best remembered for writing accessible books on astronomy, including The Friendly Stars and The Ways of the Planets. Her writing aimed to make astronomy easy to understand for ordinary readers rather than specialists, which helps explain why her work continued to circulate long after its first publication.

Reference sources consulted for this overview identify her as an American writer who lived from 1861 to 1925. I wasn’t able to confirm a suitable portrait image from the sources I checked, so no author photo is included here.