Nina Wilcox Putnam

Born in New Haven, Connecticut, on November 28, 1888, Nina Wilcox Putnam became a prolific American author whose work reached readers in several different forms. She wrote short stories and novels, contributed to magazines, worked on screenplays, and also published books for children.

Putnam is especially remembered for how versatile she was. Rather than staying in one lane, she wrote across popular fiction, mystery, and juvenile literature, building a career that matched the fast-changing reading culture of the early 1900s. That range helped make her a familiar name to magazine readers of her time.

She died in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on March 8, 1962. Today, she stands out as one of those energetic professional writers whose career captured the bustling mix of publishing and entertainment in the first half of the twentieth century.