Grace M. Bolen

Grace Marie Bolen (born Missouri; July 20, 1884 – February 16, 1974) was an American composer of ragtime music. Her first composition was submitted when she was 14.^[1] "Smoky Topaz", from 1901, is one of her noted works.^[2]

Bolen appears to have stopped publishing her music when she married. She married three times between 1903 and 1915, and had one child. She was a widow by 1932, and died of pneumonia at the age of 89. She is buried at Grace Hill Cemetery in Longview, Texas.