Dorothy Quick

Dorothy Gertrude Quick Mayer (September 1, 1896 – ) was an American novelist and poet.

Early life Dorothy Gertrude Quick was born on September 1, 1896, in Brooklyn, the only child of Henry Stanhope Quick Jr. (1867–1935) and Emma Gertrude Aaron (1875–1942). She attended the Plainfield Seminary in Plainfield, New Jersey. Twain died in 1910. Near the end of her life, Quick published Enchantment: A Little Girl's Friendship With Mark Twain (1961), republished as Mark Twain and Me (1999). Her story was later dramatized as the film Mark Twain and Me (1991) with Jason Robards as Twain and Amy Stewart as Quick.

Career Much of Quick's work was in the genres of science fiction, fantasy, or horror, starting with the story "Scented Gardens" in Oriental Stories in 1932. She was one of the most frequent contributors of short stories and poems in Weird Tales starting in the 1930s, including the story "Strange Orchids", about a carnivorous plant that consumes a woman from the inside out. Her series of "Patchwork Quilt" stories about a quilt which conveys the user through time, appeared in Unknown in 1939 and 1940. She wrote a planetary romance novel, Strange Awakening (1938), about a woman transported to Venus who helps a rebel prince overthrow a tyrannical psychic mind that rules the planet.

She wrote fifteen books of both poetry and novels, including numerous mystery novels.

In 1925 she married John Adams Mayer. He died in 1940. Dorothy Gertrude Quick Mayer died on March 15, 1962, in East Hampton, New York.