Mary Holland Kinkaid (née McNeish; December 31, 1861 — October 20, 1948) was an American novelist and journalist.

[3] Kinkaid was an active suffragist, and (from 1897 to 1898) Deputy State Superintendent of Public Instruction in Colorado.

[3][8] Books by Kinkaid include Walda (1903),[9] The Man of Yesterday: A Romance of a Vanishing Race (1908),[10] and her autobiography, The Golden Grain.

[11] In 1891, Mary Holland McNeish married John Kinkaid, a state senator in Colorado.

They had a son, John Holland Kinkaid, born 1894, and adopted a daughter.