Ethel Walbridge McCully (1896-1980) was an American author.
Anyone's first novel may be bad and a second novel is proverbially so. But Miss McCully's third makes it clear that she has settled down to a career of illiterate naivete. -- Anthony Boucher, 1945.
McCully lived at Little Maho Bay on St. John, in the Virgin Islands. Island rumor has it that she discovered the bay while traveling to the British Virgin Islands on a small Tortola sloop. Obviously impressed by the beauty, she jumped off the sailboat and swam ashore.
Ms. McCully later bought the property and built a house on the bluff above the bay. She did this with the help of six donkeys and two laborers. Ethel wrote a book about the experience, which was to be titled, I Did It With Donkeys. Her publisher said "no" to this idea, and the book was published in 1954 with the title, Grandma Raised the Roof. The roof to her guesthouse, which she called Island Fancy, was actually raised in 1953.
Ethel McCully was an ambulance driver during World War One.
Bibliography
Death Rides Tandem (1942)
Doctors, Beware! (1943)
Blood on Nassau's Moon (1945)
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