Eberhart, Mignon G.

Mignon G. Eberhart was an American author of mystery novels born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, as Mignonette Good. She attended Nebraska Wesleyan University 1917–1920 when she dropped out and started to work as a freelance journalist until she married Alanson Clyde Eberhart in 1923. He has been described as a career engineer who spent more time at work than with his wife, so in 1925 she began to write short stories in order to have something to do with her time. Some of them appeared in print, and in 1929 she published her first novel, The Patient in Room 18, which was so successful that the decided to become a full time author. She received an honorary doctorate at Nebraska Wesleyan University in 1935.