author
Pauline Bradford Mackie
1873–1956
A writer of historical fiction and children’s drama, she turned early newsroom experience into a steady literary career. Her stories often looked back to colonial and early American life, blending lively narrative with a strong sense of period detail.
1 Audiobook
Ye Lyttle Salem Maide: A Story of Witchcraft
by Pauline Bradford Mackie
About the author
Born in Fairfield, Connecticut, on July 5, 1873, Pauline Bradford Mackie later grew up in Ohio and graduated from Toledo High School. She worked for two years on the Toledo Blade before leaving newspaper work to focus on fiction and drama.
She became known for historical novels and children’s plays, with work appearing in magazines and newspapers as well as in book form. Titles associated with her include Mademoiselle de Berny and Ye Lyttle Salem Maide, and her writing often drew on American and European history for setting and atmosphere.
Mackie died in 1956. Though not a household name today, she represents a lively strand of early 20th-century popular historical writing, especially for readers who enjoy period storytelling and a glimpse of literary life beyond the biggest bestselling authors.