author
Mary Roberts Conover
b. 1880
A practical early-20th-century writer, she is best remembered for a clear, hands-on guide to building better housing for poultry. Her work speaks to readers who like useful books grounded in everyday rural life.
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Making a Poultry House
by Mary Roberts Conover
About the author
Mary Roberts Conover was an American author active in the early 1900s. The clearest biographical detail consistently attached to her name in library and digitized book records is "1880-", which suggests a birth year of 1880, though I could not confirm a death date from the sources I found.
She is known for Making a Poultry House (1912), a compact how-to book published by McBride, Nast & Company. The book was issued as part of the House & Garden Making Books series, a line of practical handbooks for home-makers and amateur gardeners.
Her surviving public record appears to be tied mainly to this practical nonfiction work rather than to a widely documented personal biography. That gives her profile a modest, utilitarian charm: she comes across as a writer focused less on literary celebrity and more on helping readers build something useful and do it well.