Brains of the Family

E.J. Rath (pseudonym of J. Chauncey Corey Brainerd and Edith Rathbone Brainerd) also wrote early science fiction. The Brainerds died in the Great Knickerbocker Storm of 1922, when two feet of snow collapsed the roof on Washington, D.C.'s Knickerbocker Theatre, killing over 200 people.