Olive M. (Olive Mary) Briggs

Little biographical information about Olive M. Briggs survives online, but library and public-domain records identify her as Olive Mary Briggs, born in 1873. She wrote popular fiction in the early 1900s, and her work includes The Love of Karpeles (1907), The Madonna's Necklace (1907), A d'Artagnan of To-Day (1908), The Black Cross (1909), The Fir and the Palm (1910), The Pound of Flesh (1912), The Bachelor Dinner (1912), and The Courting of Miss Parkina (1913).

Her surviving novels suggest a taste for romance, suspense, and adventure, often set against international or politically charged backdrops. The Black Cross, the work most easily found today, has remained accessible through Project Gutenberg, helping keep her name in circulation for modern readers and listeners.

Because confirmed personal details are scarce, Briggs is best known through the energy and range of her fiction rather than through a well-documented life story. For audiobook audiences, she offers a window into the lively, fast-moving entertainment fiction of the Edwardian era.