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Sidney McCall
1865–1954
Best known by the pen name Sidney McCall, she wrote popular early-20th-century fiction and poetry shaped by both the American South and her years in Japan. Several of her stories later found a second life on screen.
2 Audiobooks
The Breath of the Gods
by Sidney McCall
The Dragon Painter
by Sidney McCall
About the author
Born Mary McNeill in Alabama in 1865, she became known to readers as Sidney McCall and built a career as a novelist and poet. Reliable sources identify her as an American writer whose work was widely read in the early decades of the twentieth century.
Her life crossed strikingly different worlds. After her early years in the South, she lived in Japan through her marriage to scholar Ernest Fenollosa, and that experience informed some of her best-known fiction. Her writing is often noted for bringing together Southern backgrounds and Japanese settings and themes.
She died in 1954. Beyond her books, she is also remembered because several of her novels were adapted into films, helping her stories reach audiences far beyond their original publication.