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C. A. Mercer
A little-known writer whose work survives through vintage fiction and later reprints, leaving more mystery than biography behind. The scarcity of personal details only adds to the old-world charm of stories such as The Garden of Memories and collections issued under the name Atlantic Narratives.
1 Audiobook
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
Very little biographical information about this author could be confirmed from the sources available. Reliable catalog and book-listing pages do show works published under the name C. A. Mercer, including The Garden of Memories and Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories.
Because so few trustworthy details about the person behind the name are readily documented online, it is safest to treat C. A. Mercer as an obscure or lightly recorded author rather than to guess at a fuller life story. For readers, that means the writing itself takes center stage: a glimpse into older literary tastes, remembered now mainly through preserved editions and library-style archives.
If you're drawn to forgotten authors and rediscovered fiction, C. A. Mercer offers exactly that kind of appeal — a voice that has outlasted its biographical record.