Mildred K. Barbour
- Writer
Mildred Marshall Koonce was born and raised in Washington, D.C., the
daughter of George Wolfe Koonce and Gracia M. Pile. Her father was the
first and longest serving general counsel of the Army Corps of
Engineers. Mildred graduated with a degree in literature from the
University of Michigan in 1914. She married Irwin Barbour, manager of
the Wheeler Newspaper syndicate, which syndicated her first novel,
Borrowed Husbands (1921). The novel was made into a film in 1924. She
divorced Barbour shortly afterward. The Wheeler Syndicate subsequently
published two other novels, which were then published in hardback by
Grossett and Dunlap. Mrs. Barbour renewed the copyright on her third
novel, A Suitor Too Many (1928), in 1956.
