V.E. Palm

V. E. Palm, known as Victor or Vic, learned as a child that he had a mysterious great aunt. Many years later, he returned to his hometown on the great plains of Montana and asked his aging mother, whatever became of Aunt Eleanor about whom we children were kept in the dark? A large manila envelope filled with news clippings and kept in a drawer appeared. Aunt Eleanor's Men is the story revealed from the many clippings and letters secreted away in that envelope. It is the story of an ambitious attractive woman who at a young age sought grandeur in the lights of Broadway and favor in the eyes of wealthy prominent men. She became known as "The Queen of the Gold diggers." In her later years, Aunt Eleanor dodged the law across America and Europe as an accomplished con artist and grifter. Her adventurous life ended at age 67 in Washington State Prison. Victor began writing after many years as a public school teacher in New Jersey. He lives with his wife Joyce in Easton, Pennsylvania. Aunt Eleanor's Men is his first book. He is now writing his perspective on the Trail of the Nez Perce.

Aunt Eleanor's adopted daughter, Cynthia Teal wrote an account of her life with her foster mother. It was syndicated in American newspaper in 1922. Her story is presented as an addendum to Aunt Eleanor's Men. She disappeared mysteriously in 1926.