My Story
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The author of such classic mysteries as The Circular Staircase and The Great Mistake, Mary Roberts Rinehart led a life just as riveting as any of her novels. In My Story, she reveals what a full life she led, spanning two centuries of struggles and successes. Born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, she may have garnered fame as a novelist who married and had a family, but she had many more accomplishments. She was a trained nurse, a world traveler, an explorer, a playwright, a war correspondent, and the only woman member of President Herbert Hoover's Land Commission. She met numerous celebrities, from royals and politicians to military generals and movie stars. Rinehart also survived her longtime cook's attempt to murder her and numerous violent and traumatic deaths in her family. Through it all, she persevered to profoundly influence American literature and the nation itself.
Originally published in 1931, My Story was revised and updated by the author in 1948.
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Mary Roberts Rinehart (1876–1958) was one of the United States's most popular early mystery authors. Born in Pittsburgh to a clerk at a sewing machine agency, Rinehart trained as a nurse and married a doctor after her graduation from nursing school. She wrote fiction in her spare time until a stock market crash sent her and her young husband into debt, forcing her to lean on her writing to pay the bills. Her first two novels, The Circular Staircase (1908) and The Man in Lower Ten (1909), established her as a bright young talent, and it wasn't long before she was one of the nation's most popular mystery novelists.
Among her dozens of novels are The Amazing Adventures of Letitia Carberry (1911), which began a six-book series, and The Bat (originally published in 1920 as a play), which was among the inspirations for Bob Kane's Batman. Credited with inventing the phrase "The butler did it," Rinehart is often called an American Agatha Christie, even though she began writing much earlier than Christie, and was much more popular during her heyday.
