Blanche Lincoln was born in Charleston, West Virginia, at the turn of the century to Josephine and William Lincoln, who immigrated from Ireland. She graduated from West Virginia State College with a degree in English. While in college she wrote poetry and short stories, which were published in literary magazines. She went on to publish her first novel, Blood Money, in 1936
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Blanche married her childhood sweetheart in 1931, but divorced him in 1936 after he became abusive. Her second marriage was to Colonel J. Kenneth Lincoln who died shortly after their wedding when their car collided with a train.
She completed her second novel, The Body of Christopher Columbo, in 1941. This is when Blanche began writing for magazines and newspapers including Life, Collier's Weekly, The Saturday Evening Post, The Ladies Home Journal, McCall's Magazine , Cosmopolitan , and People . Blanche wrote more than thirty novels and countless short stories and articles during her lifetime.
Her most notable work was the bestselling novel The Body of Christopher Columbo (1941) about a man who returns from the dead to seek revenge on his killer. The work gained national attention and was turned into a movie several years later with Humphrey Bogart playing the lead role.