Mabel Seeley

Mabel Seeley was born Mabel Hodnefield in Herman, Minnesota. Her family moved to St. Paul in 1920, and she attended Mechanic Arts High School. She graduated summa cum laude from University of Minnesota. In 1926 she married Kenneth Seeley and they moved to Chicago, Illinois, where she wrote advertising copy for a department store. When her husband contracted tuberculosis, she moved with him back to Minnesota for medical treatment. Her first book, The Listening House, was published in 1938. In …