Marie Conway Oemler was born in Savannah, Georgia, on May 29, 1879, and died in Charleston, South Carolina, in 1932. She wrote novels and short stories for early twentieth-century magazines and books, often mixing Southern settings, romance, sentiment, and adventure. Her best-known works include Slippy McGee, A Woman Named Smith, The Purple Heights, and Where the Young Child Was and Other Christmas Stories.
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