Mabel Osgood Wright (1859-1934) was an American author. She was an early leader in the Audubon movement who wrote extensively about nature and birds. She was born in New York City and was educated at home and in private schools. Wright's first printed work (apart from a few verses), was the essay "A New England May Day", which appeared in the New York Evening Post in 1893. This work was collected with other pieces into her first book, The Friendship of Nature, published by Macmillan in 1894. The following year, Wright released Birdcraft: A Field Book of Two Hundred Song, Game, and Water Birds.