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Charles Egbert Craddock
1850–1922
Known to readers as Charles Egbert Craddock, this writer brought the mountains of Tennessee into American fiction with vivid local detail and a strong sense of place. Writing under a male pen name, she became one of the most recognized early voices associated with Appalachian literature.
40 Audiobooks
The Young Mountaineers: Short Stories
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Lost Guidon 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Frontiersmen
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The raid of the guerilla 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Ordeal: A Mountain Romance of Tennessee
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Crucial Moment 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
His Unquiet Ghost 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The juggler
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 Phantoms of the Foot-Bridge, and Other Stories
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
A Chilhowee Lily 1911
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 Story of Duciehurst: A Tale of the Mississippi
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The amulet: A novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The moonshiners at Hoho-hebee Falls 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The riddle of the rocks 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Story of Old Fort Loudon
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Christmas Miracle 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Wolf's Head 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Who Crosses Storm Mountain? 1911
by Charles Egbert Craddock
'way down in Lonesome Cove 1895
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The Storm Centre: A Novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
His vanished star
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The story of Keedon Bluffs
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The fair Mississippian
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The windfall : a novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
In the Tennessee mountains
by Charles Egbert Craddock
In the clouds
by Charles Egbert Craddock
A spectre of power
by Charles Egbert Craddock
In the "Stranger People's" country : A novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
Where the battle was fought : a novel
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The despot of Broomsedge Cove
by Charles Egbert Craddock
The champion
by Charles Egbert Craddock
About the author
Born near Murfreesboro, Tennessee, in 1850, Mary Noailles Murfree wrote novels and short stories under the pen name Charles Egbert Craddock. She published in The Atlantic Monthly and became widely known for stories set in the Cumberland Mountains and Great Smoky Mountains.
Her best-known work includes In the Tennessee Mountains and The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains. Readers and scholars often remember her as an early important interpreter of Appalachian life in fiction, especially for the way she combined regional speech, dramatic plots, and richly described landscapes.
Murfree died in 1922. Although some parts of her work are now also discussed critically for the stereotypes they reflect, her writing remains an important part of the history of Southern and Appalachian literature.