Emma-Lindsay Squier

Born: December 1, 1892

Died: September 16, 1941

Married: George Mark, John Ransome Bransby

Children:

Emma-Lindsay Squier was a writer and actress who came to Saranac Lake as a TB patient.  She died of tuberculosis at of forty-eight.

She was born in Marion, Indiana where she started a weekly newsletter during her preteen years. She later moved with her family childhood to Salem, Oregon, and then to Glendale, California.

As a young adult, she was a reporter for the Los Angeles Times and eventually wrote a society column under her own byline. She became assistant editor of a monthly periodical published in Pasadena called California Life. She then moved on to become a successful author, writing adventure and animal books for young adults. She published a collection of short stories, The Wild Heart, that brought her national recognition.  Later books included On Autumn Trails (1922), Children of the Twilight (1926), The Bride of the Sacred Well (1928), and Gringo (1934).  She also wrote dozens of short stories for such magazines as Collier's, Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, and The American Girl.  Her short story, "Glorious Buccaneer," was produced as a Hollywood film retitled The Dancing Pirate (1936). Other short stories include "The Wild Heart" and "The Soul of Caliban," a short story that first appeared in the December 1924 issue of Everybody's Magazine.

External link:

• Lake Chapala Artists: Emma-Lindsay Squier (1892-1941) and a Lake Chapala folk tale
   
• Lake Chapala Artists: Emma-Lindsay Squier describes Chapala and Jocotepec in 1926