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Paul Ellerbe
A little-known early 20th-century writer, Paul Ellerbe is best remembered for stories and articles written with Alma Ellerbe that explored everyday lives with a clear, direct style. Their work appeared in magazines and collections from the 1910s and 1920s, including fiction that has since been preserved in digital archives.
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Especially dance hall women
by Alma Ellerbe, Paul Ellerbe
About the author
Paul Ellerbe was an American writer whose surviving published work is mostly linked with fellow writer Alma Ellerbe. Together they wrote fiction and nonfiction pieces that appeared in periodicals and anthologies in the early 20th century, including the Harper’s article “The instant need of things” in 1919.
Library and archive records also connect Paul Ellerbe with As We Are: Stories of Here and Now from 1923, and Project Gutenberg preserves Especially Dance Hall Women, a later collaboration credited to Alma Ellerbe and Paul Ellerbe. These records suggest a writer active in magazine culture and short-form prose rather than a heavily documented public literary career.
Very little biographical information about his personal life appears to be readily available in reliable online sources today. Because of that, his published collaborations remain the clearest window into his work and place in early American popular literature.