author
Merab Eberle
1891–1959
A journalist turned storyteller, she wrote across several genres, from patriotic pageants and children’s plays to an early science-fiction tale published in Amazing Stories. Her work offers a glimpse of a versatile writer who moved easily between the worlds of newspapers, theater, and pulp fiction.
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The mordant
by Merab Eberle
About the author
Born in Mattoon, Illinois, in 1891, Merab Eberle was an American journalist, editor, poet, and author. She worked for newspapers including the Mattoon Journal-Gazette and later the Philadelphia North American, building a career in journalism while also writing creatively in several forms.
Eberle published children’s plays and other dramatic work, including The Spirit of Democracy in 1917. She also wrote poetry and ventured into speculative fiction; the science-fiction encyclopedia notes that her only magazine science-fiction story was "The Mordant," which appeared in Amazing Stories in March 1930.
She died in 1959. Though not widely known today, her career is interesting for its range: she was one of those early twentieth-century writers who could be at home in the newsroom, on the stage page, and in the imaginative world of pulp magazines.