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Ysabel De Teresa

Remembered today mainly for two early-20th-century novels, this California-born writer left behind emotionally charged fiction with artists, ambition, and complicated relationships at its center.

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The Erratic Flame

The Erratic Flame

by Ysabel De Teresa

About the author

Ysabel de Teresa was an American novelist best known for The Erratic Flame and The Nymph Was Mortal. Her work has survived largely through public-domain and reader archives, where The Erratic Flame is still available to modern audiences.

Available records indicate she was born on December 1, 1886, and later became Ysabel De Teresa Bodman. She died on February 26, 1978, and is buried in Santa Barbara, California.

Very little widely documented biographical material seems to survive online, so the details of her life and literary career are limited. What remains suggests a writer of literary, character-driven fiction whose books explored romance, art, and inner conflict.