Geraldine Bonner

"Hard Pan" redirects here. For Hard Pan, California, the fictional setting of a 2007 book, see The Higher Power of Lucky. For The soil science term, see Hardpan.

Geraldine Bonner (pen name, Hard Pan; 1870–1930) was an American writer.

Portrait of Geraldine Bonner

Biography

Geraldine Bonner was born on Staten Island, New York. Her father, John Bonner, was a journalist and historical writer.^[1] As a child, the family moved to Colorado and she lived in mining camps. After moving to San Francisco, California, she worked at a newspaper, the Argonaut, in 1887, and subsequently, she wrote the novel Hard Pan (1900) and used the name "Hard Pan" as a pseudonym. Bonner also wrote short stories which were published in Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Harper's Monthly, and Lippincott's.

Bonner died on June 18, 1930, in New York City.^[2]

Publications

Books

• Hard Pan, (1900)
• Tomorrow's Tangle, (1902)
• The Pioneer, (1905)
• The Castlecourt Diamond Case, (1906)
• The Book of Evelyn, (1913)
• The Girl at Central, (1914)
• The Black Eagle Mystery, (1916)
• Treasure and Trouble Therewith, (1917)
• Miss Maitland, Private Secretary, (1919)

Plays

Along with Elmer Blaney Harris, she wrote the play Sham in 1908. Along with Harry Hutcheson Boyd, she wrote the play Sauce for the Goose in 1909.