Dorothy Gertrude Quick, born in Brooklyn on September 1st 1896, and who died March 15th 1962, was a prolific writer of horror, detective fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Quick had a close friendship with Samuel Clemens (a.k.a. Mark Twain), and later gave credit to Twain for encouraging her to write. She also lectured extensively on their friendship. Her 1961 memoir, Mark Twain and Me, was the basis for a 1991 Disney movie of the same name. Quick married John Adams Mayer in 1925 but published under her maiden name throughout her life. She made her first genre fiction sale to Farnsworth Wright, the editor of Oriental Stories, in 1932 and went on to contribute stories and poems to Wright’s more successful editing venture, Weird Tales, for more than twenty years.