Mary K. (Mary Katherine) Maule

Mary K. Maule, identified in library and book records as Mary Katherine Maule, was an American writer whose surviving bibliography points to a career centered on historical and juvenile writing. Project Gutenberg lists A Prairie-Schooner Princess, and archive records preserve the same novel under her fuller name.

A Nebraska Authors entry identifies her as Mary Katherine (Finigan) Maule and connects her with Nebraska, which fits the plains setting of her best-known novel. Her name also appears in digitized issues of St. Nicholas and in Canadian school readers, suggesting that her shorter work reached both magazine audiences and classroom readers.

Some catalog records give her birth year as 1861, while the Nebraska Authors entry gives 1864. Because the available sources conflict on that point, it is safest to say that she was born in the early 1860s.