Mary Dillon

Mary Dillon, who also published as Mary C. Johnson Dillon, was an American novelist born in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Her birth year is not recorded in the standard catalogs; she died in St. Louis in 1923. She wrote popular historical and regional fiction in the early 1900s, including In Old Bellaire, Comrades, and The Leader. The Rose of Old St. Louis (1904) is her best remembered book, and its foreword shows her research habits, leaning on local histories and on Marbois's own handwritten account of the cession, then held by the St. Louis Mercantile Library.