Background
Vorst, Bessie Van was born in 1873 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of John, Junior, and Lydia (Matteson) McGinnis.
Vorst, Bessie Van was born in 1873 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of John, Junior, and Lydia (Matteson) McGinnis.
Educated Mission Brackett’s School, and the Brearley School, New New York
Began corresponding for the New York Evening Post, 1898. Contributor to Harper’s Magazine, Century Magazine, Revue des Deux Mondes, Saturday Evening Post, Ladies’ Home Journal. Novels published in Journal des Debats, Paris, in Corriere dela Sera, Milan, and Churchman, New New New York
Married John Van Vorst, 1899.