The following entry on Eleanor M. Ingram appears in the 1914 edition of A Woman's Who's Who of America:
INGRAM, Eleanor Marie. Grand View on Hudson, NY. Winter 223 Riverside Drive NY City Author b. NY City 1887 dau. John Wharton and Anna A(ugusta) Sheilds [sic] Ingram. Ed at home with private teachers. Author: The Game and the Candle; The Flying Mercury; Stanton Wins; From the Car Behind; also contributor to various magazines here and abroad; books and short stories have appeared in England and Europe and have been translated into Swedish, Danish and Norwegian. Christian. Recreations: Motoring, yachting, music, reading, foreign literature. Reads French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Mem. Tappan Zee Yacht Club, Rockland Country Club, Circulo Literario Hispaniola.
Who's Who in America vol. 11 (1920) gives the following entry (p. 1467):
INGRAM Eleanor Marie, author: b. New York, Nov 26 1886 d. John Wharton and Anna Augusta (Shields) I.; ed under pvt. tutelage; unmarried; Author: The Game and the Candle, 1910 (also issued as "John Allard," 1911); The Flying Mercury, 1911; Stanton Wins, 1911; From the Car Behind, 1912; The Unafraid, 1913; A Man's Hearth, 1915; Twice American, 1917. Home: 745 Riverside Drive. New York.
A newspaper advertisement from December 1915, in connection with the publication of A Man's Hearth, has a brief description of the author:
Eleanor M. Ingram is a splendid type of the twentieth century girl who is as much at home on the golf links, tennis court, as in the social whirl of receptions, pink teas and the like. Her new book is called “A Man’s Hearth"
Eleanor M. Ingram died on March 22, 1921. Her death certificate gives her age as 38 and the cause of death as "Secondary anaemia, fibroma uteri, exhaustion" and indicates that she had been ill for 5 years. Her last novel, The Thing from the Lake appeared posthumously.
However, Eleanor may have regularly revised her age downwards. In the New York State Census taken in February 1892, "Ella M. Ingram" the daughter of John W. and Annie A. Ingram, is listed as 11 years old, which––if the birthday of November 26 is correct––would put her birth year in 1880 or––if simple subtraction from her birth year was used––in 1881; however, in the New York Census of 1905 (June) she is listed as 22 years old, while in the US Census of 1910 (April), she is listed as 23. It's worth noting that Eleanor's age is not the only one that fluctuates. Her parents are identified as 31 years old in 1892, 40 years old in 1905, and 47 in 1910! Her brother Edward is 13 in 1905 but 21 in 1910.
The inconsistency in the various records for Eleanor M. Ingram's apparent birthdate is noted by Gina Collia in the introduction to her 2025 edition of The Thing From the Lake (Nezu Press); Collia notes that Eleanor's mother was described as single in a court filing of June 1880 but was married and expecting a child in February 1881 (p. xxiii n.1). If Anna Augusta Ingram was known to be expecting a child in February 1881, late November of that year would seem to be quite late for the child's birth, but it is not impossible. It's conceivable, for example, that Anna Augusta divulged her pregnancy at at quite early date for strategic reasons, as she was then in the midst of a lawsuit concerning her adoptive father's will (in which he had left his property to her); she might have gained sympathy with the court by appearing not only as a respectable wife, but as a prospective mother assailed and dragged out of the home in the midst of a 'delicate condition' (for details about this lawsuit see Collia 2025 pp. ii-iii with references).