Margaret Deland (née Margaretta Wade Campbell) (February 23, 1857 – January 13, 1945) was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet. She also wrote an autobiography in two volumes. She is generally considered part of the literary realism movement.
Her first poetry collection, The Old Garden and Other Verses, was published in late 1886 by Houghton Mifflin.] Her first novel, John Ward, Preacher, was published in 1888.
By 1941, Deland had published 33 books. She died in Boston at the Hotel Sheraton, where she then lived, in 1945. She is buried at Forest Hills Cemetery. Her home on Mount Vernon Street is a stop on the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail.