Mildred Masterson McNeilly
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Mildred Masterson McNeilly (28 May 1910 – 12 July 1997) was an American author best known for her novel Each Bright River.
She also wrote for mystery magazines under the pen-names James Dewey{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=51}}{{cite book|last1=Carty|first1=T.J.|title=A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135955786|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQoeCwAAQBAJ&q=Mildred+Masterson+McNeilly+&pg=PA115|accessdate=27 February 2016}} and Glenn Kelly.{{cite book|last1=Carty|first1=T.J.|title=A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language|date=2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135955786|page=115|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qQoeCwAAQBAJ&q=Mildred+Masterson+McNeilly+&pg=PA115|accessdate=27 February 2016}}{{Cite book|title=Pseudonyms|author=Joseph F. Clarke|publisher=BCA|date=1977|page=95}}{{Cite book|title=Women in Particular: An Index to American Women|page=704}}
Critical reception
The New York Review of Books said "...McNeilly writes with the authority of a careful researcher. There is excitement here as the author re-creates the agony of the Whitman Massacre, the adventure of the Gold Rush of '48, the fear and laughter of spirited men ..."{{Cite book|title=The New York Times Book Review|volume=Part 1|year=1994|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=978-0-7914-1827-7|pages=89}}
Bibliography
- Each Bright River: A Novel of the Oregon Country (1950)
- Praise at Morning (1947)
- Heaven is Too High
- Lovely Day
- Great is the Glory (1946)
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Category:American women novelists
Category:20th-century American women writers
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