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Spinners' Club
A literary club rather than a single writer, this early-1900s name is tied to a California anthology that gathered stories by well-known authors of the day. Its most notable book was created in support of poet Ina D. Coolbrith, giving the project a warm sense of community as well as literary history.
1 Audiobook
The Spinners' Book of Fiction
by Spinners' Club
About the author
Spinners' Club appears to have been a collaborative literary group, best known for The Spinners' Book of Fiction (1907) rather than for work by one individual author. Project Gutenberg’s text of the book describes it as a volume collected by the book committee of the club and published on behalf of The Spinners' Benefit Fund.
That anthology brought together fiction by a striking list of writers, including Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Jack London, Frank Norris, Miriam Michelson, and others, with a dedicatory poem by George Sterling. The book was issued for Ina D. Coolbrith, identified in the volume as the fund’s first beneficiary, which suggests the club had a literary and charitable purpose as well as an editorial one.
Because Spinners' Club was a group name, not a clearly documented single person, reliable biographical details are limited. In an audiobook context, it makes the most sense to think of the name as the banner for a turn-of-the-century West Coast literary circle that organized and published shared projects.