Francis Stevens - Serapion: "Chaos will swallow the world, and the race of men be superseded by the race of madmen!"

Gertrude Barrows Bennett was born in Minneapolis on 18th September 1884.

She completed school up to the eighth grade, then switched to night school to study illustration, unfortunately she was never able to achieve a career in this. As a fall-back she began working as a stenographer, a career which she would keep to for the rest of her life.

But Gertrude had talent, writer's talent. Her first short story was written when she was 17. Not you would think t...