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Rives (AMELIE an American novelist)

AMELIE, an American novelist, born in Richmond, Va., Aug. 23, 1863. At an early age she contributed RIVET was short stories to magazines and newspapers. A series of stories composed her first book, "A Brother to Dragons." "The Quick or the Dead," a unique type of fiction first published serially in "Lippincott's Magazine," in 1890, her first success. It was aft afterward published in book form. "According to St. John" first appeared in the "Cosmopolitan" magazine, and then in book form, in 1891. Other books by this author are "Virginia of Virginia," and "Athelwold."

She became the wife of John A. Chanler in 1888. They were divorced on account of incompatibility. In 1896 she married the son of a Russian Prince, Pierre Troubetskoi, an artist. She also wrote, "Herod and Mariamne," "Witness of the Sun," "Barbara Dering," "Tanis," etc., and several plays, including "The Prince and the Pauper," based on Mark Twain's romance (1920).