Louise Forsslund(1876-1910)
- Writer
The daughter of a Swedish-born Long Island innkeeper and storyteller
who had panned for gold in California and gotten drunk with Mark Twain,
Mary Louise Foster grew up listening to her father's stories, a number
of which were turned into short stories and a number of well-received
novels which were published under her nom de plume, Louise Forsslund,
which was the original spelling of her father's surname before it was
Anglicized to Foster. After her death, her novel "Old Lady No. 31" was
made into a play by Rachel Crothers; it ran for 160 performances on
Broadway in 1916-1917.