Ina J. Nagel was born in Denver, Colorado in 1882. She spent her early childhood in Black Hawk, Colorado the setting for her story "A Colorado Childhood" before attending Wolfe Hall, an Episcopal women's seminary originally located on Clarkson Street, between 13th (Thirteenth) and 14th (Fourteenth) Avenues in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver. In 1903 she married the writer Edward Calvin Durfee (b.1874) and spent most of the rest of her life living on the east coast in New York City until her death in Alexandria, Virginia in 1981 at the age of 99.
From the description of Ina J.N. Durfee papers, 1928-1960. (Denver Public Library). WorldCat record id: 194120724