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Mary Holland Kinkaid
1861–1948
A longtime newspaperwoman turned novelist, she built a career that stretched across roughly fifty years in journalism and fiction. Her life moved from Pennsylvania to Arkansas, and her writing drew on both professional experience and a sharp eye for people and place.
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Walda: A Novel
by Mary Holland Kinkaid
About the author
Born Mary Holland McNeish in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on December 31, 1861, she later became known as Mary Holland Kinkaid after her marriage. She worked in newspapers and magazines for about fifty years and is remembered as both a journalist and a novelist.
Kinkaid spent much of her career in Arkansas, where she became associated with regional literary and newspaper life. Her fiction includes Walda: A Novel, and her writing reflects the mix of observation, storytelling, and lived experience that often grows out of long work in journalism.
She died on October 20, 1948. Though not widely known today, she stands out as one of the women who built substantial literary careers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries while moving between the worlds of reporting and fiction.