Lois Milburn Bull was an American newspaper entertainment columnist,
novelist and short story writer. She was born on 18 September, 1900 in
New York City. She might be the Lois M. Bull of New York City mentioned
in a 1926 NY Times obituary as the granddaughter of Mary Augusta
(Bates) Bull, widow of William H. Bull of West Springfield,
Massachusetts.
During the 1930s her short stories appeared in a number of popular
detective magazines of the day and as serials in daily newspapers. A
short list of her more popular works may include "Death Rides Engine
Thirteen", "Trial of a Heiress", "The Jig Saw Murders", "Summer Sock",
"The Missing Finger", A Romance in a Million", "Broadway Virgin", "Top
Trapeze" and "Murder in the Air". Some of these stories were published
under the pseudonyms of Melville Burt, Dale O'Hara, Judith Grovner
Wright and Cecily Bowman.
Lois was married to architect Stanton A. Habersham, a native of
Baltimore and a grandson of
Edwin M. Stanton, Abraham Lincoln's
Secretary of War.
Mr. Habersham, died unexpectedly on 6 July, 1948 in New York City. Lois
passed away on what would have been her late husband's 81st birthday,
21 September, 1971, most likely in New York City were she resided.
