Temple Bailey
American writer
Intro | American writer | |
A.K.A. | Irene Temple Bailey | |
A.K.A. | Irene Temple Bailey | |
Places | United States of America | |
is | Writer Screenwriter Novelist | |
Work field | Film, TV, Stage & Radio Literature | |
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Birth | United States of America, Petersburg |
Irene Temple Bailey (February 24, 1869 – July 6, 1953) was an American novelist and short story writer.
Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others.
In 1914, Bailey wrote the screenplay for the Vitagraph Studios film Auntie, and two of her novels were filmed. She also had three of her books on the list of bestselling novels in the United States in 1918, 1922, and 1926 as determined by Publishers Weekly.