Hallie Erminie Rives

Hallie Erminie Rives (1874-1956) was a best-selling American novelist of the early twentieth century, best known for her popular novel A Furnace of Earth (1900), which catapulted her to fame. Born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, to a Confederate veteran father, she drew heavily from Southern themes in her writing, including works like Smoking Flax and Hearts Courageous, and led an adventurous life married to diplomat Post Wheeler.[1][2][3]