Discipline: Literature

Grace Mason

Discipline: Literature
MacDowell Fellowships: 1946
Grace Mason (1876-1966) was an American journalist, critic, and writer of stories and novels. Mason published several novels and collections of short stories, including The Car and the Lady (1908, co-written with Percy F. Magargel), The Godparents (1910), Licky and his Gang (1912), The Bear's Claws (1913), The Golden Hope (1916), His Wife's Job (1919), The Shadow of Rosalie Byrnes (1919) and Women Are Queer (1932). She is sometimes considered an early woman author in science fiction, based on Bear's Claws (a "lost world" story). Mason was an officer of the Pen and Brush, a New York club for women writers and artists, while Ida Tarbell was the club's president. She was also a member of the Authors' Guild. She spent the summer of 1927 at an island retreat in Maine with three other women writers, including Pulitzer-prize winner Margaret Widdemer. In 1935 she was on the panel of judges for a literary contest sponsored by the Bronxville Women's Club. Films based on works by Grace Sartwell Mason include Waifs (1918), The Shadow of Rosalie Byrne (1920), Speed (1925), Man Crazy (1927), and Honeymoon in Bali (1939).