Bonner, Geraldine : 1870-1930

Name: Geraldine Bonner

Occupation: author
Born: Staten Island, New York, 1870
Died: July 17, 1930
Daughter of John and Mary [Sewell] Bonner

Education: educated by father

Marital Status: unmarried

Went West in 1880; lived in mining camps in Colorado 2 years; went to California and settled in San Francisco.  Began writing for San Francisco Argonaut, 1887; dramatic critic, San Francisco Argonaut, 4 years, also foreign correspondent, San Francisco Argonaut.

Author: Hard Pan, 1900; Tomorrow’s Tangle, 1902; The Pioneer, 1905; The Castlecourt Diamond Case, 1906; Rich Men’s Children, 1906; The Emigrant Trail, 1909.

Wrote plays: Sham (with Elmer B. Harris), 1908; Sauce for the Goose (with Hutcheson Boyd), 1909; The Book of Evelyn, 1913; The Girl at Central, 1914; The Black Eagle Mystery, 1916; Treasure and Trouble Therewith, 1917; Miss Maitland, Private Secretary, 1919; The Leading Lady, 1925; Taken at the Flood, 1927;

Home Address: New York, New York.

~ Who Was Who in America, Volume I, 1897-1942, Fourth Printing, 1960, Page 115

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