Shirley Seifert

Shirley Seifert (May 22, 1888 – 1971) was an American historical fiction author. She was best known as the author of The Proud Way, which tells the story of the courtship between Confederate President Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell, and The Wayfarer (1938), which was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. Seifert was a founding member of the St. Louis Writers Guild and was twice named a "St. Louis Woman of Distinction."

Life Born in St. Peters, Missouri on May 22, 1888, Seifert was the older sister of fellow writers Adele and Elizabeth Seifert and majored in classical and modern languages at Washington University in St. Louis. After working as a teacher for three years, Seifert took courses in journalism at the University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Journalism and began writing fiction.

Seifert died in 1971 at the age of 83. McCall's, New York Herald-Tribune, Redbook, and The American Magazine. River Out of Eden (1940) Never No More Three Lives of Elizabeth (1952) The Proud Way (1953) Captain Grant Waters of the Wilderness The Senator's Lady (1967)

Short stories "The Girl Who Was Too Good Looking" (1919) "To-Morrow" (1920)