Alice Harriman

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Alice Harriman

1861–1925

A poet, novelist, and publisher, she built a rare literary career at a time when few women ran publishing houses. Her work ranges from verse and short fiction to regional writing tied to the American Northwest.

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A Man of Two Countries

A Man of Two Countries

by Alice Harriman

About the author

Mary Alice Harriman was an American writer and publisher born in Maine in 1861 and active across poetry, novels, short stories, and nonfiction. She is especially notable for running the Alice Harriman Company, publishing books in Seattle in the late 1900s and later in New York before closing the business in 1913.

Her books included Songs o' the Sound, A Man of Two Countries, and Wilt Thou Not Sing?, showing the range of her writing from poetry to longer fiction. Contemporary reference works singled her out as an unusually prominent woman in publishing, and that independence remains one of the most interesting parts of her story.

She died in 1925. Today, she is remembered not only for her own writing, but also for carving out space for authors through her work as a publisher.