Mary Rider (sometimes credited as Mary Rider Mechtold) was an American screenwriter, playwright, and short story writer active primarily during the 1910s.
[3] She began to write plays[4] as well as short stories[5] during the 1910s that appeared in publications like Sunset,[6] Metropolitan,[7] and Munsey's Magazine.
[8] She also wrote for vaudeville before writing stories for the screen during Hollywood's silent era.
[9] One of her earliest stories to hit the screen was 1914's The Mountain Rat.
She married Reuben Maynard in New York City in 1916.