Pauline Bradford Mackie Hopkins was an American writer of historical fiction. Pauline Bradford Mackie was born in Fairfield, Connecticut on July 5, 1873. Her father, Rev. Andrew Mackie, was an Episcopal clergyman and a scholarly man, from whom she inherited her literary talent. For two years after her graduation from the Toledo High School, she was engaged as a writer on the Toledo Blade. She soon abandoned this for a literary career, and most of her stories appeared in magazines and newspapers. "Mademoiselle de Berny" and "Ye Lyttle Salem Maide" were, after most trying experiences with publishers, printed in book form. "A Georgian Actress" was written in Berkeley, California, where Hopkins had gone with her husband, Dr. Herbert Müller Hopkins (b. Hannibal, Missouri, 1870), who later became the chair of Latin in Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, where she also wrote two novels of Washington life during the American Civil War.