Merriam Modell - Biography

Merriam Modell (19 May 1908 - 1 July 1994 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American author of pulp fiction, who wrote under the pen-name 'Evelyn Piper'.

A graduate of Cornell University, Modell travelled extensively in her younger years, and, up to 1933, lived in Germany. Back in the United States, after marriage and motherhood (she had a son, John Modell), she published her first short story in 1941 and afterwards started to write novels as well. Films were made of The Nanny (1965), which starred Bette Davis, and Bunny Lake Is Missing (also 1965) had Laurence Olivier in the lead.

Partial bibliography

• The Sound of Years (1946)
• My Sister, My Bride (1948)
• The Innocent (1949)
• The Plot (1951)
• The Lady and Her Doctor (1956)
• Bunny Lake Is Missing (1957)
• Hanno's Doll (1961)
• The Nanny (1964)
• The Stand-In (1970)

Notes

• Maria DiBattista (Princeton University): "Afterword". In: Evelyn Piper: Bunny Lake Is Missing (Femmes Fatales: Women Write Pulp) (The Feminist Press at The City University of New York: New York, 2004) 198-219 (ISBN 1-55861-474-5).