About the Author

Frances Noyes Hart (1890–1943) was an American writer whose stories were published in Scribner’s, The Saturday Evening Post (where her novel The Bellamy Trial was first serialized), and The Ladies’ Home Journal. The daughter of Frank Brett Noyes, founder of the Associated Press, Hart was educated in American, Italian, and French schools before serving in World War I as a canteen worker for the YMCA and a translator for the Naval Intelligence Bureau. She later wrote six novels, numerous short stories, and a memoir.