Eva Katherine Clapp | |
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| Born | August 10, 1857 Bradford, Illinois |
| Died | March 6, 1916 |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Alma mater | Milwaukee Female College |
| Notable works | Zauberlinda the Wise Witch (1901) |
| Spouse |
C. B. Gibson of Chicago
(m. 1892) |
Eva Katherine Clapp (after marriage, Eva Katherine Gibson; August 10, 1857 – March 6, 1916) was an American writer of novels, short stories, and poems. She is best known for her novel Zauberlinda the Wise Witch (1901), which took inspiration from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) by L. Frank Baum. She survived the Iroquois Theatre fire in 1903.