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Anna Nicholas
1850–1929
An Indiana writer and journalist, she is remembered for fiction rooted in Midwestern life after the Civil War. Her stories and novel draw on local places and everyday people, giving them a warm sense of time and place.
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An idyl of the Wabash, and other stories
by Anna Nicholas
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania and later long associated with Indianapolis, she built a career as both a writer and a newspaperwoman. Sources on her life describe journalism as her main field, with fiction forming a smaller but lasting part of her work.
She is best known for An Idyl of the Wabash, and Other Stories (1898), a collection set in Indiana shortly after the Civil War, and for the novel The Making of Thomas Barton (1913). Her writing is closely tied to Indiana settings, which helps explain why she still appears in regional literary resources today.
She died on January 29, 1929. Although not widely known now, her work survives through public-domain archives and local history projects, where she stands out as part of Indiana's literary past.