Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke
Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke, from a 1908 advertisement
Born	Harriet Lucille Baldwin September 28, 1879 Mannsville, New York
Died	January 20, 1966 Norwalk, Connecticut
Occupation	Writer
Notable work	Eve's Other Children (1912), Little Miss By-the-day (1919), Nora Pays (1925)

Harriet Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke (September 28, 1879 – January 20, 1966) was an American writer.

Lucille Baldwin was born in Mannsville, New York, the daughter of William Edward Baldwin and Hannah Jeanette Fish Baldwin. Her father was a newspaperman.^[1] She graduated from Syracuse University in 1902.^[2]

Books by Van Slyke include Eve's Other Children (1912),^[3] Little Miss By-the-day (1919),^[4][5][6] and Nora Pays (1925).^[7][8] She also wrote novel-length stories for serialized publication in newspapers, including The Newlywed Lindsays (1921),^[9] Brides Will Be Brides (1922)^[10] The Match that Merry Made (1922), Just Like a Woman (1924), The Social Climber: Love Story of a Schoolma'am (1925),^[11] and Playing with Fire (1926).^[12] She wrote dozens of short stories, for magazines including McClure's,^[13] Collier's,^[14] and Pearson's.^[15]

Van Slyke was known for her popular stories and books about Syrian immigrants in Brooklyn,^[16][17] often centered on a child character named Nazileh and her family.^[18][19] "No one can lay down this book without feeling that there are exquisite qualities lurking in the Syrian quarters, qualities that we as a people need," wrote Mary Bannister Willard in a review of Van Slyke's Eve's Other Children.^[20] The Bookman columnist Ina Carrington Cabell said in 1912 that "it is borne upon us that such vital happenings, such real people, must be true and alive".^[21]

The silent films The Stolen Kiss (1920) and Brides Will Be Brides (1926) were based on a stories by Van Slyke.^[22][10] "The Haze of the Honeymoon" (1908) was adapted for radio performance in 1943.^[23]

• "Peachy H.S." (1908, American Magazine)^[24]
• "His Famous Deed" (1908, American Magazine)^[25]
• "Second Fiddle" (1908, Hampton's Broadway Magazine)^[26]
• "The Haze of the Honeymoon" (1908, New Broadway Magazine)^[27]
• "Jack's First Concert" (1908, syndicated in newspapers)^[28]
• "Goldilocks" (1909, Hampton's Magazine)^[29]
• "Exclusive" (1909, Appleton's Magazine)^[30]
• "The King's Messenger and the Pink Soap" (1909, Red Book)^[31]
• "The Housetop" (1910, The Craftsman)^[32]
• "The Dinner Pail" (1910, The Craftsman)^[33]
• "The Dazzler" (1911, Red Book)^[34]
• "The Cat and the Crusader" (1911, Red Book)^[35]
• "Rug of Her Fathers" (1911, McClure's)
• "Rodania the Magic Mare" (1911, McClure's)^[13]
• "Dreams in Lace" (1911, McClure's)^[36]
• "Ten Pieces of Silver" (1911, McClure's)^[37]
• "The Camel of Bethlehem" (1911, McClure's)^[38]
• "The Tooth of Antar" (1911, McClure's)^[39]
• "The Peddler" (1912, American Magazine)^[40]
• "The Gift of Tongues" (1912, McClure's)^[41]
• "The Thing Called Play" (1912, Current Literature)^[42]
• "The Fountain of Joy" (1912, The Craftsman)^[43]
• "The Castle of Comfort" (1914, Everybody's)^[44]
• "General Merry Sunshine" (1916, Collier's)^[14]
• "What Aunt Theodora Wanted" (1916, Pearson's)^[15]

Lucille Baldwin married fellow Syracuse alumnus George Martin Van Slyke, a newspaper editor, in 1903. He died in 1961.^[45] She died in 1966, aged 85 years, at a hospital in Norwalk, Connecticut.^[46]

• "The Ninety-Ninth Rejection Slip", a short story by Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke, at Librivox
• Lucille Baldwin Van Slyke at IMDb