Pauline Brutting Story[1] (September 1870 - June 10, 1952)[2] was an American composer[3] and publisher who wrote ragtime pieces for piano and patriotic songs[4] during World War I, including one based on a text by Helen Keller.
She married John F. Story in 1890, and they had four children.
[7] She lived in New York City before moving to St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1927.
[2] Story’s Dance of the Frowsy Heads was recorded commercially by Columbia in 1913.
[5] Her music was also published by William H. Anstead,[9] Brehm Brothers,[10] Gordon & Sons, Frank Harding,[5] Howley, Haviland and Dresser, Philip Kussel,[11] Frank K. Root,[12] and M. Witmark & Sons.