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Sharkey, Emma Augusta

journalist, author, was born Sept. 15, 1858, in Rochester, N. Y. She is a successful journalist and story writer; and is the author of nearly a hundred serial stories and novels, and over one thousand sketches; besides numerous poems. Her writings generally appear under the nom de plume of E. Burke Collins. Her novels chiefly represent life in the south, more especially the pine woods of Louisiana, her hitherto and also untrodden field of literature. In 1884 she married Robert R. Sharkey, a Mississippi cotton planter.