Mary F. Nixon-Roulet

Born Mary F. Nixon on May 31, 1866, in Indianapolis, Indiana, she became a prolific American author whose work reached both children and religious readers. She is remembered especially for entries in the popular Our Little Cousin series, including Our Little Spanish Cousin, Our Little Brazilian Cousin, Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin, Our Little Grecian Cousin, Jean, Our Little Australian Cousin, and Our Little Hungarian Cousin.

Her writing ranged widely. Alongside children's travel-style stories, she published folklore collections such as Japanese Folk Stories and Fairy Tales and Indian Folk Tales, contributed short fiction to newspapers and anthologies, and wrote books focused on Catholic saints and devotional subjects. Contemporary accounts also noted that her work was promoted in both Catholic and Presbyterian publications.

She married physician Alfred de Roulet and lived with her family in Chicago. A Catholic convert from a religious and literary family, she was also described as a supporter of Native American children, an interest said to have grown from stories she heard in childhood. She died in 1930.