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Merab Eberle
1891–1959
A journalist with a lively imagination, she wrote children’s plays, poetry, and early science fiction. Her work moved easily between practical newsroom writing and inventive storytelling.
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The mordant
by Merab Eberle
About the author
Born in Mattoon, Illinois, on February 2, 1891, Merab Eberle was an American writer and journalist whose career covered several genres. Reliable reference sources describe her as a newspaperwoman as well as a writer of children’s plays, poems, and science fiction.
She is especially remembered by science fiction readers for two stories from 1930, including The Mordant, which appeared in Amazing Stories. At the same time, bibliographic records show a much broader body of work, including plays written for young performers and other popular writing from the 1910s onward.
Eberle died in Dayton, Ohio, on October 31, 1959. Though she is not widely known today, her writing offers a glimpse of an author who worked across forms and audiences, from children’s theater to the early pulp science fiction scene.