Author Description

Hallie Erminie Rives (1876-1956) was an American author. She was a member of one of America's oldest families and the wife of a prominent American diplomat. She wrote The Modern and Complete Book of Etiquette (1939). As a novelist she wrote several best sellers, including: Smoking Flax (1897), A Furnace of Earth (1900), The Castaway (1904), In the Wake of War (1905) and Satan Sanderson (1907).