Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry

Date of Birth: 18-Sep-1906

Date of Death: 08-Apr-1998

Profession: writer, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Florence Virginia Foose Wilson Mayberry (September 18, 1906 – April 8, 1998) was an American writer and convert to the Bahá'í Faith.
After mostly being raised by her grandparents, her grandfather in particular serving in the Union Army during the civil war, she joined the religion at age 35 and around the same time began also writing short fiction, eventually having a long career writing for Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine.
In the religion, her service as a speaker was wide-ranging, and soon she advanced from position to position in the religion as first an Auxiliary Board member and then a Continental Counselor and then one serving at the International Teaching Centre - the highest appointed positions of the religion during her later years.
Meanwhile, she was a successful writer with almost 20 years of continuous annual appearance in the Ellery Queen magazine and almost half her stories were also anthologized even as late as 2012.