Fannie Edgar Thomas

Fannie Edgar Thomas, born 1870 in Chicago, Illinois, dead 1925, was an American author.

As a diversion she wrote a small book during her leisure hours, which she published clandestinely by the aid of a printer.

She signed the volume with the cabalistic pen-name, "6-5-20," and the venture was successful, clearing her a comfortable sum of money.

The book attracted the attention of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, who invited the author to New York City and took her into her home.

[1] She wrote for three New York magazines, the Sunday World, the Recorder and the Sun, but still economic independence was hard to achieve for a self-supporting woman.