Lurana Sheldon (1862 - 1945)

Lurana W. Sheldon (pen names: Richard Hackstaff, Stanley Norris, Grace Shirley) was an American author of novels, poems, and short stories, as well as a newspaper editor. Her published work amounted to over one million words. She claimed to have earned her living in fifteen different and totally dissimilar lines of business, including bookkeeping, business management, journalism, work in a chemical laboratory, buying dry goods, and writing stories. She was a suffrage activist, and she opposed prohibition.