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Charles D. (Charles David) Stewart
1868–1960
A Midwestern novelist and essayist with a reporter’s eye, he wrote lively fiction and nonfiction shaped by city life, work, and ordinary ambition. His books include The Fugitive Blacksmith, The Wrong Woman, and Buck, showing a fondness for energetic storytelling and American settings.
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The Wrong Woman
by Charles D. (Charles David) Stewart
About the author
Born in Zanesville, Ohio, on March 18, 1868, and raised in Milwaukee, Charles D. Stewart built a career as an American author in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Records linked to literary and archival collections identify him as Charles David Stewart and place him among the writers associated with the Society of Midland Authors.
His published work ranged across novels, essays, and other prose. Surviving listings of his books show a steady output that includes The Fugitive Blacksmith (1905), Partners of Providence (1907), Essays on the Spot (1910), The Wrong Woman (1912), and Buck (1919). Together, those titles suggest a writer interested in character, movement, and the pressures of modern American life.
Stewart lived a long life that stretched from 1868 to 1960, leaving behind a body of work that is still traceable through public-domain libraries and archival records. He may not be a household name now, but his fiction and essays offer a window into the tone, concerns, and storytelling habits of his era.