Betty Fible Martin

Betty (Fible) Martin (1907–1977) was an American journalist, writer, and Virginia farmer. Martin wrote farming-inspired feature stories and other articles for The New York Times and magazines. Martin also wrote articles that ran in IBM's Think magazine and The American Tradition.

While writing her articles, Martin ran a farm in Fairfax, Virginia, which she renovated from a previously dilapidated property. Themes from her farming activities and novelists Ellen Glasgow, Edith Wharton, Elizabeth Drexel, and Virginia Woolf influenced Martin's writing. Describing the historical experiences of POWs in America, the 1976 book The Enemy among Us: World War II Prisoners of War referenced Martin's article. The 1978 book The Faustball Tunnel: German POWs in America and Their Great Escape also references her article.

Spring Comes to the Farm

Martin's influential narrative "Spring Comes to the Farm" appeared in three anthologies. These anthologies included Farrar & Rinehart's Modern English Readings, Rinehart & Company's Readings in Biography & Exposition, and Holt, Rinehart and Winston's Readings in Exposition. An excerpt from "Spring Comes to the Farm" also appeared in D. Appleton-Century company's 1942 book As Others Hear You: A Textbook in Speech for High Schools.