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Margaret Prescott Montague

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Name
  
Margaret Montague

Role
  
Short story writer

Died
  
1955, Richmond, Virginia, United States

Books
  
England to America, Uncle Sam Of Freedom, Home to Him's Muvver, Up Eel River

Margaret Prescott (or Preston) Montague (29 November 1878 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia – 26 September 1955, Richmond, Virginia) was an American short story writer, and novelist. Her middle name is sometimes attributed as Preston before changing to Prescott.

Contents

Her work appeared in Harper's among other places.

Her novels were adapted into the films Linda (1929), Calvert's Valley (1922), Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge (1920) and Seeds of Vengeance (1920).

Awards

  • 1919 O. Henry Award

    • Works

  • Deep channel. Atlantic Monthly Press. 
  • The Sowing of Alderson Cree. The Baker & Taylor company. 1907. 
  • In Calvert's Valley. The Baker & Taylor Company. 1908.  (reprint. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-0-548-25964-1. )
  • Closed doors: studies of deaf and blind children. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1915. 
  • Of water and the Spirit. E.P. Dutton & Company. 1916. 
  • "On Authors". Atlantic classics. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1918. 
  • Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1920. 
  • England to America. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1920. 
  • Up Eel River. The Macmillan company. 1928. 

    • Stories

  • "The Will to Go". The Atlantic monthly 127. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1921. 
  • "Why It Was W-On-The-Eyes". The Atlantic monthly 111. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1913. 
  • Charles Swain Thomas, ed. (1918). "Of Water and the Spirit". Atlantic narratives: modern short stories. The Atlantic Monthly Press. 
  • "England to America". O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919. BiblioBazaar, LLC. 2008. ISBN 978-0-554-33436-3. 

    • References

    Margaret Prescott Montague Wikipedia
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