Grace Jones Morgan

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.{{cite web |url=http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ceww/id/103 |title=Morgan, Grace Jones |publisher=York University |work=Canada's Early Women Writers |access-date=2015-04-30 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150430233644/http://content.lib.sfu.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ceww/id/103 |archive-date=2015-04-30 |url-status=dead }}

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

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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.