Leona Dalrymple

Leona Dalrymple (1884 – 1968) was an early 20th century American writer of novels, short stories, and plays.

[4][5] On February 7, 1921, she married Clarence Acton Wilson, a lifelong friend, in a Greenwich Village studio apartment ceremony.

Dalrymple's first publication was a play in 1905; the firm that published it later issued another dozen of her works, mostly written for amateur theatricals.

[4] In 1913, Dalrymple won the then very large prize of US$10,000 in a literary competition organized by the publisher Reilly & Britton and judged by Ida Tarbell and S.S.

[4] Diane of the Green Van is a highly improbable Ruritanian romance whose plot involves an heiress who spends a year camping up and down the east coast in a caravan, the intrigues of a European kingdom called Houdania, a missing document, and any number of disguises.