Elinor Macartney Lane (1864 – March 15, 1909) was an American novelist who was popular in the first decade of the 1900s.

After publishing a number of short stories, she wrote three novels: Mills of God (1901),[1] Nancy Stair (1904),[2] and Katrine (1909).

[9] It was also adapted as a play by the American Catherine Chisolm Cushing for performance in Los Angeles,[10] and New Zealand playwright Violet Targuse.

After returning home from a trip to Europe, Lane died in Lynchburg, Virginia on March 15, 1909, while travelling to Asheville, North Carolina to recuperate from illness.

Her home was at that time in Port Deposit, Maryland, where her husband was director of the Tome School.