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Charles Lincoln Phifer

1860–1931

Best remembered for fiction and verse shaped by big historical subjects, this Missouri-born writer published works on the earth’s deep past, Kansas history, and the American occupation of the Philippines. His surviving papers also hint at a strongly personal side, including an autobiographical unpublished novel.

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The Friar's Daughter: A Story of the American Occupation of the Philippines

The Friar's Daughter: A Story of the American Occupation of the Philippines

by Charles Lincoln Phifer

About the author

Charles Lincoln Phifer was an American writer born in 1860 and deceased in 1931. His published work ranged widely: Annals of the Earth appeared in 1890 as a book of verse, The Friar's Daughter was published in Girard, Kansas, in 1909, and The Dramas of Kansas followed in 1915.

What makes Phifer especially interesting is the mix of subjects he took on. His writing moved from poetry to historical fiction, and from sweeping themes about the natural world to politically charged material rooted in Kansas and in the Philippines during the period of American occupation.

A small manuscript collection at the State Historical Society of Missouri preserves more of his story. It includes two unpublished novels, one of them described as autobiographical, suggesting that alongside his public, history-minded writing, he also drew directly on his own life and experience.