Mary Carolyn Davies (1888 - 1940?)

Mary Carolyn Davies was an American writer and poet. Best known for her lyric poems and children’s verse, Davies also wrote a novel, short stories, and several one-act plays. Reviewers compared her poetry favorably to that of Edna St. Vincent Millay and Elinor Wylie. She largely disappeared from public life after she moved to New York City during the 1930s. There were reports of her living in utter destitution in 1940, and there are no records of her death.