Ayres, Ruby M.

1881-1955 Ayres was an English popular novelist, known primarily for her romantic novels, although she also wrote serials for the "Daily Chronicle" and "Daily Mirror." Her first novel "Richard Chatterton V.C." was published in 1916, after which she produced almost 150 titles. She also wrote for motion pictures in the United States and England, and her play "Silver Wedding," was produced in 1932. The "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" called Ruby M. Ayres "one of the most popular and prolific romantic novelists of the twentieth century."