Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins (1859 - 1930) a native of Portland became a leading African-American author and editor in the late 19th and early 20th century. Her first play, Slaves' Escape: or the Underground Railroad, was produced in Boston in 1880 and she joined her parents soon after with The Hopkins Colored Troubadours. In 1900 her novel Contending Forces: A Romance Illustrative of Negro Life North and South appeared, followed in 1905 by A Primer of Facts Pertaining to the Greatness of Africa and numerous magazine essays. Beginning in 1901 she became an editor of the Boston based magazine Colored American. Her papers are in the collection of Fisk University Library, Nashville, Tennessee.