Nancy Barr Mavity

Nann "Nancy" Barr Mavity (October 22, 1890 – April 23, 1959) was an American crime mystery author.

In this capacity, she was the first woman to spend a night in Folsom State Prison, where she had gone to cover the pardon hearing of Warren K Billings.

She wrote two articles for Harper's Magazine about working women: The two-income family (December 1951 issue) and The wife, the home, and the job (July 1926 issue) [1] [3] She is the author of Hazard (an autobiographical novel), A Dinner of Herbs (a volume of poetry dedicated to her daughter), Responsible Citizenship (1923) (a textbook on American politics), Shirley, The Dangerous Road, The Modern Newspaper (1930) (a history of newspaper journalism), Sister Aimee (1931) (a biography of Aimee Semple MacPherson), The State Versus Elna Jepson (1937) (a courtroom drama).

[1] [2] She is the author of a series of mystery novels about crime reporter James Aloysius "Peter" Piper: The Tule Marsh Murder (1929), The Body on the Floor (1929), The Other Bullet (1930), The Case of the Missing Sandals (1930), The Man Who Didn't Mind Hanging (1932), The Fate of Jane McKenzie (1933).

[1] After the death of Arthur Benton Mavity in 1931, Nancy Barr married photographer Edward Almon "Doc" Rogers.