←Author Index: We Carolyn Wells
(1862–1942)
American author and poet who wrote a total of more than 170 books; firstly concentrated on poetry, humor and children's books; later, devoted herself to the mystery genre; best remembered for her mystery books, especially The Clue (1909), and her light verse which include several classic limericks

Works

(Partial list)

Adult fiction

  • Alan Ford
    • The Bride of a Moment (1916)
    • Faulkner's Folly (1917)
  • Anthologies (as editor)
    • A Nonsense Anthology (1910)
    • A Parody Anthology (1904)
    • Such Nonsense, An Anthology (1918)
    • The Best American Mystery Stories of the Year (1931, 1932)
    • The Book of Humorous Verse Project Gutenberg

Children's fiction

  • The Dorrance family
    • The Dorrance Domain (1905)
    • Dorrance Doings (1906)
  • Other novels
    • Folly in Fairyland (1901)
    • In the Reign of Queen Dick (1904)
    • Dick and Dolly (1909)
    • Dick and Dolly's Adventures (1910)
    • The Story of Betty (1911)
  • Children of Our Town From the Collections at the Library of Congress

Nonfiction

    • On Finishing Collector (1926)
    • The Technique of the Mystery Story (1913)

Short works from magazines

Verse

  • "The Adventures of Little Katy" in Harper's Magazine, Jun 1904
  • "Comic Opera Songs" in Metropolitan Magazine, 1906
  • "At the Convention" in Harper's Magazine, Jan 1911
  • "Babes and Antiques" in Harper's Magazine, Oct 1920
  • "A Ballade of Protest" in Century Magazine, Jul 1913
  • "English as She is Spelled" in Munsey's Magazine, Nov
  • "Law of Compensation" in Metropolitan Magazine, 1906
  • "On Meeting an Old Friend. (After Wordsworth)" in Harper's Magazine, Dec 1908
  • "Progress" in Century Magazine, Feb 1906
  • "The Rime of the Lady May" in Harper's Magazine, 1919
  • "Thirty Charades" (charades) St. Nicholas vol. 28, 1901
  • "To Omar" in Century Magazine, Feb 1900
  • "The Turnings of a Book-Worm" in Century Magazine, Dec 1904

Other

Works about Wells

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1925.

The author died in 1942, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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