Mary Moss (September 24, 1864 – April 2, 1914) was an American author and literary critic.

[3] Her great-grandfather was businessman Hyman Levy, in whose fur store John Jacob Astor was an apprentice.

If I had to live over again and knew this 'fame' was to be thrust upon me I'd mis-spend every Saturday afternoon, so as to have a dark past to draw on.

Always, without knowing why, I simply had to explore different kinds of people, had to understand how they felt about things, how they lived.

"[13]She died at the Rindone Hospital in Catania, Sicily,[14] several weeks after falling suddenly ill with a brain tumor.