Rachel Holmes Ingalls (13 May 1940 – 6 March 2019)[1] was an American-born author who had lived in the United Kingdom from 1965 onwards.
[6][7] Ingalls died from multiple myeloma under hospice care in London on 6 March 2019, at age 78.
[8] She referred to her limited commercial success as being due to the ''very odd, unsalable length" of her books, which tend to be story collections or novellas.
[12][13] In an overview of her work written for Book Post, Joy Williams wrote, "[Ingalls] had a keen sense of the unrealness of people and event, the questionableness at the heart of the world.
"[14] In 2017 Pharos Editions published a collection of Ingalls' stories selected and introduced by Daniel Handler under the title Three Masquerades: Novellas (ISBN 9781940436449).