N. Louise (Nannie Louise) Wright

Nannie Louise Wright, sometimes listed as N. Louise Wright, was born in 1879 and is also associated in historical records with the name Nannie Louise Mote. A music reference source credits her as living from 1879 to 1958 and identifies her as the author of song texts, which suggests she worked at least in part as a poet or lyric writer.

The biographical trail that survives online is fairly limited, but it shows that her writing reached composers and performers through published art songs and related musical settings. That kind of work often placed writers like Wright in the lively world of parlor songs, recitals, and sheet-music culture that flourished in the United States in the early 1900s.

Because detailed personal information is scarce in the sources available here, the fuller shape of her life remains a little indistinct. Even so, the record that does survive presents her as one of many women writers whose words found an afterlife through music as well as print.