Mary MacLane, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Mary MacLane

American writer

Date of Birth: 01-May-1881

Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

Date of Death: 01-Jan-1929

Profession: historian, memoirist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Mary MacLane (May 1, 1881 – c.
August 6, 1929) was a controversial Canadian-born American writer whose frank memoirs helped usher in the confessional style of autobiographical writing.
MacLane was known as the "Wild Woman of Butte".MacLane was a very popular author for her time, scandalizing the populace with her shocking bestselling first memoir and to a lesser extent her two following books.
She was considered wild and uncontrolled, a reputation she nurtured, and was openly bisexual as well as a vocal feminist.
In her writings, she compared herself to another frank young memoirist, Marie Bashkirtseff, who died a few years after MacLane was born, and H.
L.
Mencken called her "the Butte Bashkirtseff."