Frances Newman

Frances Percy Newman
Born(1883-09-30)September 30, 1883
Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.
DiedOctober 22, 1928(1928-10-22) (aged 45)
New York City, New York, U.S.
OccupationNovelist
NationalityAmerican
GenreNon-fiction

Frances Percy Newman (1883–1928) was a Modernist novelist, translator, and librarian who critically examined the difficulties faced by women in the American South. Although her career was extremely short, she drew the attention and support of notable novelists and critics like H. L. Mencken, Sherwood Anderson, and James Branch Cabell.