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Alice Prescott Smith
A little-known early 20th-century novelist, she wrote historical and literary fiction including Montlivet, The Legatee, and Off the Highway. Her work has survived mainly through library archives and reprints, which gives it a quiet rediscovery charm.
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Montlivet
by Alice Prescott Smith
About the author
Alice Prescott Smith was an American author best known today for Montlivet, first published in 1906. Library and bookseller records also credit her with The Legatee, Off the Highway, and Kindred, showing a small but distinct body of fiction that remained in circulation through later reprints and digital archives.
Available public records suggest she was born on November 1, 1868, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and died on July 29, 1930, in California. Those details appear in memorial and catalog-style sources rather than a full scholarly biography, so much of her life story remains hard to pin down.
Even with so few personal details preserved, her novels continue to interest readers of older fiction, especially those who enjoy overlooked American writers and books from the early 1900s. She feels like one of those authors history nearly misplaced, but not quite.