Evelyn Wells (7 April 1899 – 6 September 1984) was a 20th-century American biographer and author most known for her biographies of the ancient Egyptian royals of the 18th dynasty, Nefertiti and Hatshepsut.
[1] The family lived in the Chicago area until about 1905, when they moved to Ashland, Oregon, and then to San Jose, California.
[2] Around 1918, young Evelyn, armed with a letter from Veblen's divorced wife, went to Fremont Older seeking work.
[3] He asked instead that she do a piece on being an 18-year-old girl, which she promptly produced, after which she began working with Older at the San Francisco Call, and was even part of his household for a while.
"[6] She also wrote serials about Lola Montez, Sarah Althea Hill, and other early California personalities.