Rae Soares

Published in Honolulu in 1908, Cupid and the Law: A Collection of Short Stories appears to be the work most clearly associated with Rae Soares. The book’s contents suggest an interest in romance, social customs, and local life, mixing light humor with more serious turns.

Reliable biographical information about this author is scarce. Library and public-domain book records identify the writer as Rae Soares, and memorial records connect the full name Antonio Rae Soares with the dates 1888–1955, but many personal details about his life remain hard to confirm from readily available sources.

That relative obscurity is part of what makes the work interesting today: Soares stands as one of those lightly documented authors whose surviving fiction offers a glimpse of its time and place, even when the person behind it is only faintly outlined in the historical record.