Portor, Laura Spencer, 1872-1957

Laura Spencer Portor Pope (4 February 1872 – 1957) was an American journalist and author of short stories and several books. She is known as the co-author with Dorothy Giles of two science fiction novels, <i>The valley of creeping men</i> (1930) and <i>Chattering gods</i> (1931), both of which appeared under the pseudonym "Rayburn Crawley."<p>
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Laura Spencer Portor married Francis Pope, but she continued to use the name "Laura Spencer Portor" for all her professional publications except the two science novels which she co-authored. She published articles and short stories in <i>Woman's Home Companion, Harper's Magazine, The Outlook, The Dial</i> and several other magazines.