Mary M. (Mary Martha) Mears

Mary Martha Mears was an American fiction writer, screenwriter, and photographer. Available reference sources describe her short stories as appearing in magazines including Harper's, Forum, and McClure's, and list novels such as Emma Lou: Her Book, The Breath of the Runners, Rosamond the Second, and The Bird in the Box.

She was also connected to the MacDowell creative community in its early years, alongside her sister Helen Farnsworth Mears, the sculptor. That mix of literary and artistic circles helps explain the range of her career, which seems to have stretched across print fiction, visual work, and writing for the screen.

The basic biographical details are not perfectly consistent across sources: some library records list her as 1876–1943, while other reference sources give 1870–1943. What is consistent is that she was an American author whose work crossed several forms and earned publication in well-known outlets of her time.