Isa Glenn

Isa Glenn was an American novelist born in Atlanta, Georgia, the daughter of a mayor of the city and a cousin of the painter Whistler, with whom she studied in Paris. She married an army officer, Bayard Schindel, and lived at posts in the Philippines and elsewhere before settling in New York, where she began publishing fiction in her fifties. Her novels, which include Heat, set among the American colonial society of Manila, Southern Charm, Little Pitchers, Transport, A Short History of Julia, and East of Eden, published in 1932, were praised for their satire and their portraits of women.