Maynard BarbourBest-selling fiction writer Anna Maynard Barbour was an American who passed away on May 10, 1941. She was described as "usually acclaimed as the most successful of American mystery authors" in a 1903 feature in The Atlantic Monthly. Fayette Barbour ad Jane E. Cutler gave birth to Anna Barbour in Mansfield, New York, in the nineteenth century. When she was young, her parents died. She worked for the American government while residing in Helena, Montana, in the late 19th century. She wed an Englishman in 1893, and it is said that he supported her writing career. She worked in Tennessee and Boston before being ordained as an Episcopal deaconess at the House of Mercy in Boston in 1907. Some of her most well-known books are The Award of Justice; Or, Told in the Rockies: A Pen Picture of the West (1897), That Mainwaring Affair (1900), The award of justice (1901), At the Time Appointed (1903) and Breakers Ahead (1906). Read More Read Less