Marjorie MALACHI WHITAKER (née Taylor) was born in 1895 in Bradford. In 1917 she married Leonard Whitaker, and in the mid-1920s she started to publish short stories in magazines; her first collection was published in 1929 and three more followed in 1930, 1932 and 1934, a total of 78 stories of which the Persephone selection, The Journey Home and Other Stories, reprints twenty, five from each volume. She died in 1976.