By 1922, she had done both. Her one published story, The Parrot Who Knew Too Much , sold barely 300 copies but became a cult oddity for its unsettling blend of dark comedy and locked-room mystery. She was photographed at the Algonquin Round Table — not as a member, but as a “wild card guest who made Dorothy Parker laugh once and never returned.”
In 1924, she married , an eccentric amateur archaeologist fifteen years her senior, who claimed to have found evidence of a lost Viking settlement in the Mojave Desert. The wedding lasted six months. The divorce lasted three years. cubbi thompson van wylde
Since “Cubbi Thompson Van Wylde” doesn’t correspond to a widely known historical figure, I’ve written it as a fictional or mysterious “forgotten character” piece — fitting for a blog that explores oddities, unsolved mysteries, or obscure Americana. The Strange Disappearance of Cubbi Thompson Van Wylde: Heiress, Adventurer, or Ghost? By 1922, she had done both
Then came the Van Wylde part.