Gale Wilhelm (April 26, 1908 – July 11, 1991) was an American writer most noted for two books that featured lesbian themes written in the 1930s: We Too Are Drifting and Torchlight to Valhalla.
By age ten, she had moved to Boise, Idaho with her mother and siblings, but seemingly, her father was absent at this time.
After the publication, Wilhelm worked as Associate Editor of Literary America, living in New York for one year.
In 1943, Wilhelm received an honorary membership in the International Mark Twain Society for her “outstanding contribution in the field of fiction”.
In 1975, Torchlight to Valhalla was reprinted by Arno Press's library edition of Homosexuality: Lesbians and Gay Men in Society, History and Literature.
By the time Naiad Press reprinted Torchlight to Valhalla in 1985, it contained a foreword by Wilhelm herself, an autobiographical sketch.