Emily Vielé Strother (March 18, 1866 – August 24, 1959)[1][2] was an American novelist.
She was born Emily Vielé in New York, the daughter of Teresa (Griffin) Viele (author of a memoir of army life, Following the Drum) and Egbert Ludovicus Viele, a Union Army officer and later U.S. Representative from New York.
Her paternal grandfather John L. Viele was a New York politician, and her brothers Francis Vielé-Griffin and Herman Knickerbocker Vielé were both writers.
[3]: 18–19 [4][1] Her parents initially settled in Southold, Long Island, but later moved to Ashford Hill.
[3]: 19 Told in the first person, it offers a slightly fictionalized account of her and her siblings' upbringing in Paris.