Bertha Runkle was an American novelist and playwright born in Berkeley Heights, New Jersey. From a literary family, she wrote five novels. Her first and best known, The Helmet of Navarre, was made into a Broadway play. Wikipedia
Born: 1879, Berkeley Heights, NJ
Died: 1958 (age 79 years), Palo Alto, CA
Parents: Lucia Runkle
Spouse: Louis Bash (m. 1904)