Sidney McCall
Sidney McCall, born Mary McNeill, later Mary McNeil Fenollosa, was an American novelist and poet. Several of her novels became films.Early life
McCall was born Mary McNeill in Wilcox County, Alabama, to William Stoddard McNeill, a Confederate Army lieutenant from Mobile, Alabama, and Laura Sibley. McCall was the oldest of five children.Films
The Breath of the Gods is based on her novel of the same name. The Eternal Mother, a lost 1917 silent film, is based on her Red Horse Hill. The Dragon Painter is based on her novel The Dragon Painter.
Selected works
- Out of the Nest: A Flight of Verses poetry, under her own name
- Truth Dexter novel, as Sidney McCall
- Hiroshige, the Artist of Mist, Snow and Rain essay, under her own name
- The breath of the gods : a Japanese romance of to-day, as Sidney McCall
- The Dragon Painter under her own name
- Red Horse Hill novel, as Sidney McCall
- Foreword to Epochs of Chinese and Japanese Art: An Outline History of East Asiatic Design by Ernest Fenollosa*
- Blossoms from a Japanese Garden: A Book of Child-Verses , poetry, under her own name
- The Strange Woman novel, as Sidney McCall
- Ariadne of Allan Water novel, as Sidney McCall
- The Stirrup Latch novel, as Sidney McCall
- Sunshine Beggars novel, as Sidney McCall
- Christopher Laird novel, as Sidney McCall
Mary Fenollosa was also responsible for the posthumous completion, checking and publication of her late husband's magnum opus.
