author
Anna Nicholas
1850–1929
Remembered for stories rooted in Indiana life, this journalist and local historian wrote with a close eye for place, community, and the changing Midwest. Her work ranges from fiction set along the Wabash to a lasting history of Indianapolis's Crown Hill Cemetery.
1 Audiobook
An idyl of the Wabash, and other stories
by Anna Nicholas
About the author
Born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, Anna Nicholas spent much of her life in Indianapolis, where she built a career as a journalist and writer. Contemporary and historical sources describe her as a newspaper writer for the Indianapolis Star as well as an author deeply interested in Indiana's people and places.
Her fiction includes An Idyl of the Wabash, and Other Stories (1898) and The Making of Thomas Barton (1913). These works are closely associated with Indiana settings and post-Civil War Midwestern life, giving her writing a strong sense of region and everyday character.
Nicholas was also known as a local historian. Her later book, The Story of Crown Hill (1928), helped preserve the history of one of Indianapolis's best-known landmarks and shows the documentary side of her work alongside her fiction.