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Carolyn Wells
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I lived from 1869-1942.
I was from America, and am in the Americas category.
Carolyn Wells, was born in Rahway, New Jersey, on June 18, 1862, supplemented her formal education with an early-formed habit of her love of reading. After completing her schooling she worked as a librarian for the Rahway Library Association for some years. Her love of puzzles led to her first book, At the Sign of the Sphinx (1896), a collection of charades. She followed with The Jingle Book (1899); The Story of Betty (1899), first of a series of novels for girls; and Idle Idyls (1900), a book of verse for adults.
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From 1900 Carolyn immersed herself entirely to literary work, and over the next four decades she produced a flood of books, approximately 170 titles that fell into several genres: children's stories, mystery and detective stories, anthologies, and humorous and nonsense writings. Among her books are Patty Fairfield (1901), beginning a second popular series for girls; A Nonsense Anthology (1902), one of her best-known books; The Rubaiyat of a Motor Car (1906); Marjorie's Vacation (1907), beginning another series; A Chain of Evidence (1912); The Maxwell Mystery (1913); The Book of Humorous Verse (1920); The Book of Limericks (1925); Horror House (1931); Murder in the Bookshop (1936); and Murder Will In (1942). Her autobiography, The Rest of My Life, appeared in 1937.
Carolyn Wells was especially known for her humour, and she was a frequent contributor of nonsense verse and whimsical pieces to magazines: Gelett Burgess' The Lark, the Chap Book, the Yellow Book, and the Philistine. She died in New York, on March 26, 1942.
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