Gertrude Atherton
Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton was a prominent and prolific American author. Many of her novels are set in her home state of California. Her bestseller Black Oxen (1923) was made into a silent movie of the same name. In addition to novels, she wrote short stories, essays, and articles for magazines and newspapers on such issues as feminism, politics, and war. [Wikipedia]
Works (42)

The Californians
1898

Ghost Stories From the Grave

American wives and English husbands
1898

The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
1905

Sleeping fires
1922

The Spinners' Book of Fiction

The Doomswoman
June 1984

The splendid idle forties
1902

Ancestors
1907

The conqueror
1902

California
1914

Mrs. Pendleton's four-in-hand
1903

Julia France and her times
1912

The Sisters-In-Law
1921

The Avalanche
1919

The White Morning
1918

Rezánov
1906

His fortunate grace
1897

Short Stories of America
May 30, 2005

Dido, queen of hearts
1929

Tower of ivory
1910

Can women be gentlemen?
1938

The Crystal Cup
1925

The Jealous Gods
1928

Perch of the devil
1914

The Valiant Runaways
1898

The Best Short Stories of 1916

The aristocrats
1901

Rezánov and Doña Concha
1907

Adventures of a novelist
1932

The foghorn
June 1934

Golden Gate country
1945

Black oxen
1923

Life in the war zone
1916

The Immortal Marriage
1927

Transplanted
1919

Los Cerritos
1890

Senator North
1900

The caves of death, and other stories
2008

The horn of life
1942

The Living Present
1917

Before the Gringo came
1894