Stella Wynne Herron (April 5, 1885 – March 1, 1966)[1][2] was an American writer and suffragist whose work appeared in a variety of magazines, including Collier's, Sunset, and Weird Tales.
She worked as an associate editor for the university's journal 'The Stanford Sequoia',[4] and her play, The Original Miss Tewksberry, was selected to be the senior farce for the 1906 school year.
[8] Over the following sixty years, Herron would go on to write many short stories, several plays, a serialized novel, and an illustrated book of protest poetry.
[12] She was known for her prize-winning stories in various magazines, including "An Adventurous Day", and one trade journal even reported that, "Her work received the personal compliments of the late Theodore Roosevelt.
[19][20] Her writing and activism connected her to many influential figures including journalist Alma Reed, who considered Herron a "lifelong friend", and painter José Clemente Orozco.