author
Violet Irwin
b. 1881
An early 20th-century novelist and screenwriter, she wrote dramatic fiction and also ventured into Arctic-themed storytelling. Her known work includes The Human Desire, Wits and the Woman, and Kak, the Copper Eskimo.
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Kak, the Copper Eskimo
by Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Violet Irwin
About the author
Violet Irwin, listed in library records as born in 1881, was an early 20th-century writer whose books include The Human Desire, Wits and the Woman, and The Mountain of Jade.
She also collaborated on Kak, the Copper Eskimo, a book associated with explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson, which shows that her work ranged beyond society and domestic fiction into adventure and travel-related subjects.
Film databases also connect her with Human Desire (1919), suggesting that her writing reached the screen as well as the printed page. Reliable biographical details about her personal life appear to be scarce, so the surviving record is centered mostly on her published work.