Letters of a Dakota Divorcee

Jane Burr was the nom de plume of Rosalind Mae Guggenheim (1882–1958). She was born in Clebourne, Texas in December 1882. Her parents were Bertha Kaufman and Louis Guggenheim. Jane studied at Washington University in St Louis for two years before taking jobs with two St. Louis newspapers—The St. Louis Star and The St. Louis Republic. During this period she was briefly married to Jack Punch. After her divorce she published her first book, Letters from a Dakota Divorcee in 1909. It was a fictionalized account of a woman seeking a divorce in the turn of the century divorce capital of America—Sioux Falls.