Lucy S. Furman (June 7, 1870 – August 24, 1958) was an American novelist, short story writer, and animal welfare activist.

She eventually returned to Kentucky to attend Sayre School in Lexington, graduating in 1885.

During her twenty years' service there, she fictionalized her observations into stories that were published by The Atlantic and Century Magazine, then later collected in best-selling novels such as Mothering on Perilous (1913), Sight to the Blind (1914), The Quare Women (1923), The Glass Window (1924), and The Lonesome Road (1927).

For her work as a southern female writer, Furman earned the George Fort Milton Award in 1932.

[1][8] In 1934, Furman proposed an anti-steel trap bill to Kentucky's General Assembly.