Pamela Sydney Frankau (1908-1967) was a popular English novelist from a prominent artistic and literary family. She was abandoned by her novelist father Gilbert Frankau at an early age, and she became a prolific writer. She stopped writing for a decade after the death of her lover, the poet Humbert Wolfe, in 1940. After serving in World War II, she was married for several years to an American naval officer, but returned to England and resumed her writing career. Frankau published The Willow Cabin her most successful novel, in 1949, which was based partly on the experience of her love for Wolfe, and her following novels were widely read.