author
Charles Egbert Craddock
1850–1922
Best known for vivid stories of the Tennessee mountains, this American writer built a literary career behind the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. Her fiction helped bring Appalachian settings and voices to a wide national audience in the late 19th century.
40 Audiobooks
The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Lost Guidon 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The raid of the guerilla 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Frontiersmen
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The juggler
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Crucial Moment 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
His Unquiet Ghost 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The phantoms of the foot-bridge 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Down the Ravine
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Una of the hill country 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The phantom of Bogue Holauba 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
His "day in court" 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The raid of the guerilla, and other stories
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories
by Charles Egbert Craddock
A Chilhowee Lily 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Mystery of Witch-Face Mountain, and Other Stories
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The bushwhackers & other stories
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The riddle of the rocks 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Story of Old Fort Loudon
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Wolf's Head 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Christmas Miracle 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The amulet: A novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The moonshiners at Hoho-hebee Falls 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Who Crosses Storm Mountain? 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Storm Centre: A Novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
'way down in Lonesome Cove 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The windfall : a novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
His vanished star
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The fair Mississippian
by Charles Egbert Craddock
In the clouds
by Charles Egbert Craddock
In the Tennessee mountains
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The story of Keedon Bluffs
by Charles Egbert Craddock
A spectre of power
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The despot of Broomsedge Cove
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Where the battle was fought : a novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
In the "Stranger People's" country : A novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The champion
by Charles Egbert Craddock
About the author
Mary Noailles Murfree (January 24, 1850 – July 31, 1922) was an American novelist and short-story writer who published as Charles Egbert Craddock. She is widely associated with early Appalachian literature, and her work introduced many readers to life in the mountains of Tennessee.
She published stories in The Atlantic Monthly, and her first book, In the Tennessee Mountains (1884), gathered several of those pieces. Contemporary reference sources also note that she became widely known by her pseudonym before her identity was publicly recognized.
Murfree was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and later died there in 1922. Readers often remember her for atmospheric regional fiction, strong sense of place, and for the unusual path of a woman writer who first reached the public under a male pen name.