Kelley, Edith Summers

Kelley, Edith Summers( 1884–1956),
Canadian-born author, was secretary of Upton Sinclair at his Helicon Home Colony, later migrated to Kentucky, where she and her long-time friend, C. Frederick Kelley, were tenant farmers of tobacco, the subject of her novel Weeds (1923). Further wandering took them to San Diego, where she wrote her second sociological novel, The Devil's Hand, set in the Imperial Valley, and not published until 1974.