Author. She was an American poet and novelist of the 20th century, who spent many years of her life in Spain. Born Elizabeth Gammell Woolsey on the "Breeze Hill," a South Carolina plantation, her prominent family settled in New England in colonial times. She was called "Gamel." After her father's death in 1910, she was enrolled in Ashley Hall in Charleston, an exclusive school for young ladies. When she was twenty years old, she was diagnosed with tuberculosis and had a recuperative period in a sanitarium. Wanting to launch a writing career, she went against her mother's wishes and relocated in 1921 to New York City, living in Greenwich Village. Her first-known published poem appeared in the "New York Evening Post" in 1922. On April 2, 1923, she married New Zealand-born American author, Rex Hunter. As a couple, they appeared in acting roles in theatrical works in Woodstock. During a trip to England, the couple separated after four years of marriage. While in England, she met English author, Gerald Brenan. When Brenan returned to his home in Spain, she followed him. At the dawn of the Spanish Civil War in 1934, the couple returned to England for political reasons. She published "Middle Earth," a 36-poem collection in 1931 and in 1939 "Death's Other Kingdom," a woman's account of a village in the first few months of the Spanish Civil War. With her descriptions of Spanish life being timeless, this was released as "Malaga Burning" in 1998. "Middle Earth" was published again as part of a collection of her poems in 1979. She translated from Spanish to English "Spanish Fairy Stories" in 1944 and "The Spendthrifts " in 1951. Her translation of "La de Bringas" by Galdos sold 70,000 copies. In 1953, the couple returned to Spain. Her science fiction short story, "The Star of Double Darkness" was published in 1955 in the "Saturday Evening. Her sexual explicitness novel, "One Way of Love," was written in an era before being accepted by the general public, hence published posthumously in 1987. Her 1947 novel "Patterns on the Sand" was rejected for publication in England, then lost for many years before being found as a manuscript form in a Texas library in 2000. The novel, which was set in South Carolina during the turn of the 20th century, was finally published in 2012. She died of cancer and was buried in Spain as "Gamel Wooley Brenan." Her oil on canvas portrait, which was commissioned by a friend, is on displayed at the Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery in Carlisle, United Kingdom. Kenneth Hopkins, a scholar of her life, was responsible for having republished her works as well as two of the works of Rex Hunter.