Fannie Heaslip Lea (October 30, 1884 – January 13, 1955) was an American author and poet,[1] best known for her poem "The Dead Faith".
Fannie (sometimes spelled Fanny) Heaslip Lea, the daughter of newspaperman James J. Lea and Margaret Heaslip, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
in 1904, and did graduate work in English at Tulane University in Louisiana for two years after.
[2] Until her marriage in 1911, she wrote feature articles for New Orleans daily newspapers and short stories for magazines such as Harper's, a short story, "Little Anna and the Gentleman Adventurer", in the 1910 The Century Magazine and Woman's Home Companion.
She divorced Agee in 1926 and moved to New York, publishing 19 novels and more than 100 stories, poems, and essays in various newspapers and journals, until her death in 1955.