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C. A. Mercer
Known today mostly through a small handful of surviving works, this writer seems to belong to the late 19th and early 20th century world of short fiction. The record is sparse, which gives the stories an extra air of mystery.
2 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Available catalog records confirm C. A. Mercer as the author of The Luck-Penny (1895) and as a contributor to Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories (1918). Reader and library listings also associate the name with The Garden of Memories, a short work that has continued to circulate in reprints and readings.
Very little biographical information about C. A. Mercer appears to be reliably documented online, so it is safest to focus on the work itself rather than speculate about the person behind the initials. What can be said is that Mercer’s surviving publication trail points to a writer remembered for concise, literary storytelling rather than for a large, well-documented public career.
For listeners, that scarcity can be part of the appeal: the stories arrive with few distractions from authorial legend, leaving the atmosphere, theme, and voice to do the work. Mercer stands as one of those elusive authors whose fiction has outlasted the facts we would like to know about them.