Fairbank, Janet Ayer

Fairbank, Janet Ayer( 1879–1951),
Chicago novelist, sister of Margaret Ayer Barnes. Her novels are The Cortlands of Washington Square (1923); The Smiths (1925); The Lion's Den (1930); The Bright Land (1932), about a mid-19th century woman from her girlhood in New Hampshire to later life on the Illinois frontier; and Rich Man, Poor Man (1936), about the suffragist movement and reforms of the early Progressive party. Idle Hands (1927) is a collection of stories.