Irene Temple Bailey (ca. 1885 - July 6, 1953) was an American novelist and short story writer. Beginning around 1902, Temple Bailey was contributing stories to national magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post, Cavalier Magazine, Cosmopolitan, The American Magazine, McClure's, Woman's Home Companion, Good Housekeeping, McCall's and others. In 1914, Bailey wrote the screenplay for the Vitagraph Studios film Auntie, and two of her books were filmed. She also had three of her books on the list of bestselling novels in the United States in 1918, 1922, and 1926 as determined by Publishers Weekly. In this book: The Tin Soldier, 1918 Contrary Mary, 1914 Mistress Anne, 1917 The Gay Cockade, 1921 Judy, 1923 The Trumpeter Swan, 1920