Author. She will be best remembered for writing a series of short stories and novels that were usually based on her father's many experiences during his life when he was Andrew D. Forsslund. Her father later Americanized his last name to Foster from Forsslund, and when she began writing she used the pen name of Louise Forsslund which included her middle name and her father's original last name. She was born one of three children which included a sister Minnie Foster (1869-1934), and a brother Rufus Andrew Foster (1869-1890), to Swedish immigrant and innkeeper Andrew D. Foster (1826-1907), and his wife Ann Eliza Brown Foster (1834-1918), in Islip, New York, on March 13, 1873. She was educated locally at local schoolhouses in Sayville, New York. She then attended and graduated from the Union High School in Sayville, New York, in 1889, and then attended the prestigious all-girls Packer Institute in Brooklyn, New York, for a time. Following her education, she returned to Sayville, New York, where she began her writing career. Unfortunately, she was not able to find a publisher who would publish her works until the age of twenty-five. Her many short stories and other writings such as "Dutchtown Stories" (1904), and "Winter Love" (1906), would eventually appear in such well-known publications such as the "Ladie's Home Journal," "Tom Watson's Magazine," and "The Century Magazine," among many others. Her published novels include, "The Story Of Sarah" (1901), "The Ship Of Dreams" (1902), and "Old Lady Number 31" (1909). Her last novel, "Old Lady Number 31" (1909), was also turned into a play which was written by Rachel Crothers and that ran on stage from 1916 to 1917, and a film, "Old Lady 31" (1920). The film version which was directed by John Ince and also starred Emma Dunn, Clara Knott, Harry Harmon, Winifred Westover, Graham Pettie, and Martha Mattox, told the story of an older couple Abe and Angie Rose who lose life savings in worthless mining stock, their last one hundred dollars is for Angie to live in the Old Ladies Home while Abe must content himself with the poorhouse. Their parting at the gate of the institution affects the inmates so deeply that they make arrangements for Abe to remain there as "Old Lady 31." Once there, the ladies almost nurse Abe to death, and when inmate Blossy's new husband, Captain Darby, suggests he escape, Abe welcomes the opportunity. Remorse overtakes him, however, and he returns to discover that the mining stock is worth enough money to buy back the Roses' old house. The novel, "Old Lady Number 31" (1909), was also the basis for the film, "The Captain Is A Lady" (1940), which was directed by Robert B. Sinclair, and also starred Beulah Bondi, Virginia Grey, and Charles Coburn, and tells the story of a couple named Captain and Mrs. Peabody who are evicted from their home because of a bad investment. Mrs. Peabody then finds lodging at a retirement home, but as only single women are allowed, the Captain has to make other arrangements. However, after witnessing their tearful goodbye, the home's residents vote to allow the couple to move in together. The Captain is a reluctant lodger, uncomfortable at being surrounded by so much femininity, and bristles when his pals start referring to him as "Old Lady." The time has come for Captain Peabody to reassert his manhood! She was married to the writer Charles Carey Waddell who under the pen name of Charles Carey authored the work, "The Van Suyden Sapphires" (1905). The couple married in Sayville, New York, on August 16, 1906, and they were together until her untimely passing on May 2, 1910. Together the couple had four children together, three who died at birth and a boy named Forsslund Waddell (1910-1917), who himself was in poor health and eventually passed away at the age of seven and was buried in Saint Anns Cemetery in Sayville, New York. She passed away at the Ross Health Resort Sanitarium in Brentwood, New York, on May 2, 1910, at the age of 37. She had been in poor health since the birth of her son Forsslund Waddell a couple of months earlier. Her funeral was a private event which was held at the family home and following the services she was buried in Saint Anns Cemetery in Sayville, New York, near her father who had passed away three years earlier. Her husband Charles Carey Waddell who later remarried passed away in Manhattan, New York, was buried in Grandview Cemetery in his hometown of Chillicothe, Ohio. Her last published work was a short story entitled, "Amen Petticoats" (1910), which appeared in "The Century Magazine," just before her death. Shortly, before her passing, she was asked about her dreams in life. She said, "Tell you the dreams of my life? How can I? They have been many, and I still dream on like a great big fool. But if this dream of becoming a writer-which possessed me from the time, I knew the meaning of the word ‘story'—if this is coming true, why should I not persist in dreaming still?"