Grace Jones Morgan (November 26, 1884 – January 1, 1977) was a Canadian-born pulp fiction writer and novelist. She often used the pseudonym Bassett Morgan.
Early life
The daughter of Edwin Bassett Jones and Emily Dunkley, she was born Grace Ethel Jones in Chatham, Kent County, Ontario. In 1905, she married Thomas Russell Morgan. The family moved to California in 1918.
Career
Morgan wrote for a number of pulp fiction magazines such as Weird Tales, Argosy, Oriental Stories and Ghost Stories. Her stories were also included in a number of anthologies. She published at least three novels: Salvage All (1928), Tents of Shem (1930) and The Golden Rupee (1935), and self-published her father's autobiography Recollections of Edwin Bassett Jones.
Death
She died in Alameda at the age of 92.
References
- ^ "Morgan, Grace Jones". Canada's Early Women Writers. York University. Archived from the original on 2015-04-30. Retrieved 2015-04-30.
External links
Categories:- 1884 births
- 1977 deaths
- Pulp fiction writers
- Canadian emigrants to the United States
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- 20th-century American novelists
- 20th-century Canadian women writers
- People from Chatham-Kent
- Writers from Ontario
- Writers from California
- Canadian women novelists
- Canadian women short story writers
- 20th-century Canadian novelists
- 20th-century Canadian short story writers
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 20th-century American women writers