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Paul Ellerbe
A little-known early 20th-century American writer, he is best remembered for stories written with Alma Ellerbe that appeared in magazines and later in book collections. Their fiction often turned toward everyday people and social questions, giving the work a lively period feel.
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Especially dance hall women
by Alma Ellerbe, Paul Ellerbe
About the author
Paul Ellerbe was an American writer whose surviving bibliography is tied closely to collaborative work with Alma Ellerbe. Library and catalog records connect him with stories and collections including Especially Dance Hall Women, while magazine indexes show the pair publishing fiction together in outlets such as The Century Magazine, Red Book Magazine, and Sunset.
Their work also reached general-interest magazines beyond fiction. A 1919 piece in Harper's Magazine, credited to Paul and Alma Ellerbe, shows them writing about contemporary education and social issues as well as storytelling.
Reliable biographical detail about his life is scarce in the sources I found, so it seems fair to remember him primarily through the writing itself: a partner in a husband-and-wife literary team whose short fiction circulated in prominent American magazines of the 1910s and 1920s.