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Elsie Singmaster

American novelist

Elsie Singmaster Lewars (August 29, – September 30, ) was an American author from Macungie, Pennsylvania, who has been described as "perhaps Macungie's most famous citizen".[1] She was a Newbery Honor recipient in

Early life and education

Singmaster was born on August 29, , in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, to parents of German ancestry.

She was educated at Allentown High School and West Chester Normal School, before studying at Cornell University from to She then attended Radcliffe College, where she graduated in

In , she married musician and English professor Harold Steck Lewars.

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She added his surname to hers but continued to publish as Elsie Singmaster. She was pregnant with Lewars' child when he died at the age of 33 in March Their baby, Singmaster's only child, died two months later in May.

Career

Singmaster wrote many short stories and books between and Her first published short story was The Lèse-Majesté of Hans Heckendorn, in the November issue of Scribner's Magazine.

Her first published book was When Sarah Saved the Day, in Her short story The Courier of the Czar earned a position of merit in the O. Henry Award[2] and, perhaps her most famous title, Swords of Steel, received a Newbery Honor in Her final work was "It Was Once a Jail", published in The Philadelphia Inquirer in January

An annotated bibliography of Singmaster's Gettysburg writings was published in [3]Gettysburg College's Musselman Library digitized The Hidden Road in when the text entered the public domain.[4]

Death

Singmaster died September 30, , and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

Bibliography

  • When Sarah Saved the Day:
  • Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath:
  • Katy Gaumer:
  • Emmeline:
  • The Story of Lutheran Missions:
  • The Long Journey:
  • Martin Luther:
  • Basil Everman:
  • Ellen Levis:
  • Bennett Malin:
  • The Hidden Road:
  • A Boy at Gettysburg:
  • Bred in the Bone, and other Stories:
  • The Book of the Constitution:
  • The Book of the United States:
  • Keller's Anna Ruth:
  • Sewing Susie:
  • What Everybody Wanted:
  • Virginia's Bandit:
  • You Make Your Own Luck:
  • A Little Money Ahead:
  • Swords of Steel:
  • The Magic Mirror:
  • The Loving Heart:
  • Stories of Pennsylvania:
  • Rifles for Washington:
  • A Cloud of Witnesses:
  • Stories to Read at Christmas:
  • A High Wind Rising:
  • I Speak for Thaddeus Stevens:
  • I Heard of a River:

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