Edith Summers Kelley
Edith Summers Kelley ( born April 28, 1884 in Toronto, Canada, † June 9, 1956 in Los Gatos, California ) was a Canadian writer.
Life
Edith Summers was the daughter of Scottish immigrants in Toronto, Canada. She studied at the University of Toronto, where she graduated with honors in languages. Then she moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where she met the writer Upton Sinclair, who offered her a job in his Helicon Home Colony. They met the writer Sinclair Lewis, with whom she was engaged for two years. However, she married in 1908 the writer and journalist Allan Eugene Updegraff. After the Colony burned, she worked as a teacher at a night school in order to finance her two children she had with Updegraff. The marriage failed in 1913, and later married Fred Summers Kelley, with whom she had a child together and also toured the country.
When she lived on a farm in Scott County, Kentucky with Kelley, was published in 1923 her first novel Weeds. Although he received good reviews, he had no financial success. Her second novel, The Devil's Hand was published only 18 years after her death in 1974.