Frances Noyes Hart (1890-1943) was an American writer whose stories were published in Scribner’s, The Saturday Evening Post, where The Bellamy Trial was first serialized, and The Ladies’ Home Journal. The daughter of Frank Brett Noyes, founder of the Associated Press, Hart was educated in American, Italian, and French schools before serving in WWI as a canteen worker for the YMCA and as a translator for the Naval Intelligence Bureau. After returning home, she wrote six novels, numerous short stories, and a non-fiction memoir about the war.