Author: Mary Jane Holmes
Alternate names: Mary Jane Hawes Holmes; Mary J. Holmes
Born: 5 April 1825
Died: 6 October 1907
Bio: A bestselling and prolific American author who published 39 popular novels, as well as short stories. Her first novel sold 250,000 copies; and she had total sales of 2 million books in her lifetime, second only to Harriet Beecher Stowe (<a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jane_Holmes>Wikipedia</a>).