Margaretta Lena Brucker (1883–1958)[1][2] was an American fiction author active from approximately 1937 until 1958.
[3][4][5] Brucker wrote juvenile fiction,[6] mysteries,[3] and serial stories for newspapers.
[10] Miss Brucker was born in Saginaw, Michigan and spent her early life in Shelby, Ohio.
She taught home economics in private schools in Alabama and Mississippi before turning to writing in 1936.
She also owned the Cotton Bale Tea Room in Harbor Springs, Michigan which she operated for almost 40 years beginning in 1920.