Author: Sidney McCall
Alternate names: Mary Elizabeth McNeill; Mary McNeill Chester; Mary McNeill Scott; Mary McNeill Fenollosa; Sidney Mccall; Sidney McCall; Mary McNeil Fenollosa; Mary (McNeil) Fenollosa; Fenollosa Mary McNeil
Born: 8 March 1865
Died: 11 Jan 1954
Bio: Mary McNeil Fenollosa (1865-1954), [www.es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Fenollosa] publishing primarily under the pseudonym Sidney McCall, was a popular novelist and poet in the early twentieth century. She grew up in Mobile, Alabama and several of her novels are set in Alabama. Today, she is remembered mostly as the wife of Ernest Fenollosa, [www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Fenollosa] a scholar of Asian culture and an art collector.  [www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-2346] Her well-constructed fiction deserves attention because it stands out from the mostly sentimental, plot-driven work of her contemporaries and because she creates believable and complex characters in settings that effectively evoke the atmosphere of their time and place. Works not listed here may be available on Open Library under her primary name: [www.openlibrary.org/authors/OL317482A/Mary_McNeil_Fenollosa]