Miriam Michelson

Born in 1870, Miriam Michelson was an American journalist, novelist, and playwright whose career grew out of newspaper work in California. She wrote for the San Francisco Call and became known for her quick reporting and lively, modern voice.

She later gained a wide readership with fiction including In the Bishop's Carriage, one of her best-known novels. Across her work, she often focused on energetic female characters and the pressures of money, class, and independence in American life.

Michelson continued publishing for decades and also wrote for the theater. She died in 1942, and her career is still remembered as an example of how women writers helped shape both journalism and popular literature in the early twentieth century.