Lilian was in charge of "Woman's Work" in the Newark Evening News from 1895 to 1900 and was known as "Miss Mack" or "Lilian Mack". At this point she uses an alternate name "Lillian Mack" and lives in Newark. In 1893 her poem "Peace" was featured in the New Jersey Scrapbook of Women Writers created for the World's Columbian Exposition. She attended private schools including Dunkirk Union School. Lillian wrote her own "Woman's Page" for a city paper as a teenager. Her parents were Irish immigrants Edward and Winifred. Lilian McNamara was born in 1872 in Cleveland, Ohio. Garis, were possibly the most prolific children's authors of the early 20th century. Prior to this, she was the first female reporter for the Newark Evening News in New Jersey. McNamara (20 October 1873 – 19 April 1954) was an American author who wrote hundreds of books of juvenile fiction between around 1915 and the early 1940s.
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