Daisy Thomson Gibbs was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1885. At the age of four she moved to Scotland with her Scottish family, settling in the town of Dunfermline. Letters from the Bue Room was her first book, pubished anonymously in 1916, followed by a book of short stories, The Call. Styling herself 'a fiction writer' she emigrated back to the USA in 1921, marrying a fellow novelist and farmer and settling in Penrose, Colorado. She continued writing stories, and being very active in the suffragette movement. She died in a fire in 1953.