Pearl Curran
1883-1937

          OF ST. Louis Mo., the medium through whom the remarkable books of Patience Worth are produced. Her first experience was with the ouija board which moved under her hands at a rapid rate. She spelled out the letters. They have given highly interesting communications. Later she spoke the letters aloud as they tumbled into her mind. Disregarding the claims of Patience Worth the books bear the stamp of supernormal origin. Mrs. Curran has travelled and read little, her education is limited and her literary output under the influence of Patience Worth is prodigious both in quantity and quality.

Source (with minor modifications): An Encyclopaedia of Psychic Science by Nandor Fodor (1934).