author
Christian Reid
1846–1920
A bestselling Southern novelist of the late 19th century, this writer published more than fifty books under a pen name and became especially known for vivid fiction rooted in North Carolina and the post-Civil War South.
3 Audiobooks
Fairy Gold
by Christian Reid
A Comedy of Elopement
by Christian Reid
"The land of the sky" : or, Adventures in mountain by-ways
by Christian Reid
About the author
Born Frances Christine Fisher in Salisbury, North Carolina, she wrote as Christian Reid and built a remarkably successful literary career in the decades after the Civil War. She published her first novel, Valerie Aylmer, in 1870, and readers quickly took to her blend of romance, regional detail, and strong storytelling.
She went on to write more than fifty novels, with The Land of the Sky among her best-known works. Her fiction often drew on Southern landscapes, Catholic faith, and the social world she knew well, helping preserve a picture of the American South during a time of major change.
Today, Christian Reid is remembered as one of North Carolina's notable literary figures and as a prolific popular author whose books reached a wide audience in her own lifetime.