Greye La Spina | |
Pseudonym: | Isra Putnam |
Birth Date: | July 10, 1880 |
Birth Place: | Wakefield, Massachusetts, US |
Occupation: | Writer, playwright |
Nationality: | American |
Period: | 1919 to 1926 |
Genre: | horror, Fantasy, Detective fiction |
Greye La Spina (July 10, 1880 – September 17, 1969) was an American writer who published more than one hundred short stories, serials, novelettes, and one-act plays. Her stories appeared in Metropolitan, Black Mask, Action Stories, Ten-Story Book, The Thrill Book, Weird Tales, Modern Marriage, Top-Notch Magazine, All-Story, Photoplay, and many other magazines.
La Spina was born Fanny Greye Bragg on July 10, 1880, in Wakefield, Massachusetts. Her father was Lorenzo Dow Bragg, a Methodist clergyman, and her mother was Ella Celia Perkins. She was married to Ralph Emil Geissler on 5 June 1898 and gave birth to a daughter, Celia, two years later (1900). The following year, her husband died. In 1910 she married Robert La Spina, Baron di Savuto, an Italian aristocrat.
Her first supernatural story, "The Wolf on the Steppes" was sold to Thrill Book in 1919. She won second place in Photoplay magazine's 1921 short story contest gaining her a $2,500 prize.
Her first and only hardcover book, the novel, Invaders from the Dark, was published by Arkham House in 1960.