Georgia Wood Pangborn

American novelist

Georgia Wood Pangborn (1872–1955) was an American writer of novels and short stories. She is known as a writer of horror and the macabre.^[1] She was the mother of Edgar Pangborn and Mary Pangborn.

Life

Georgia Wood was born in Malone, New York, in 1872. She graduated from Smith College and married Harry Levi Pangborn in 1894. Pangborn lived for a time on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, and was a member of the New York literary establishment. Her work was published in Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Monthly, and Colliers, among others. She died in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1955.^[2]

Selected works

Short stories

"The Gray Collie" (1903)
"Cara" (1914)
"The Rescue" (1912)
"The Substitute" (1914)
"The Intruder" (1907)

Collected works

The Wind at Midnight (1999)

References

^ Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1989). What did Miss Darrington see? : an anthology of feminist supernatural fiction. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
^ "Person Detail: Georgia Wood Pangborn - New York State Literary Tree". www.nyslittree.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2015-06-03.