1. Elizabeth Garver Jordan was an American journalist, author, editor, and suffragist, now remembered primarily for having edited the first two novels of Sinclair Lewis, and for her relationship with Henry James, especially for recruiting him to participate in the round-robin novel The Whole Family.
Elizabeth Jordan was editor of Harper's Bazaar from 1900 to 1913.
Elizabeth Jordan then worked as a secretary to the Milwaukee superintendent of schools while contributing to the St Paul Globe and Chicago Tribune.
In 1890, Elizabeth Jordan moved to New York City and began working at Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World.
Elizabeth Jordan's first big break was an interview with the normally reticent First Lady Caroline Scott Harrison, wife of President Benjamin Harrison.
Elizabeth Jordan wrote a series of articles about conditions in New York City tenements that was later published as the book The Submerged Tenth.
Elizabeth Jordan helped publish novels by a number of female authors, including Zona Gale, Eleanor H Porter, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher.
Elizabeth Jordan was an active suffragist and in 1917 organized another collaborative novel, The Sturdy Oak, with fourteen authors supporting the cause, including Fannie Hurst, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Mary Heaton Vorse, Alice Duer Miller, Ethel Watts Mumford, Henry Kitchell Webster and William Allen White.
Elizabeth Jordan collaborated with minister and women's movement leader Anna Howard Shaw on Shaw's autobiography, The Story of a Pioneer.
Elizabeth Jordan published a memoir, Three Rousing Cheers, in 1938.
Elizabeth Jordan died at her home in New York City and was buried in Florence, Massachusetts.