author
Clarence Monroe Wallin
1880–1950
A little-known early 20th-century novelist, remembered for a vivid story set in the Appalachian Mountains. His surviving work offers a window into regional fiction of the period and the everyday struggles of mountain life.
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Gena of the Appalachians
by Clarence Monroe Wallin
About the author
Clarence Monroe Wallin was an American author born on January 20, 1880, and he died on December 17, 1950. Reliable records located during this search connect him most clearly with the 1910 novel Gena of the Appalachians.
That book is set in North Carolina mountain country and follows Gena Filson through hardship, work, education, and marriage. Modern library and archive listings show that the novel was published by Cochrane Publishing in New York in 1910, and it remains the work for which Wallin is chiefly remembered.
Very little biographical information about his life appears to be readily available in major public sources. One archival record also notes that Wallin sent Theodore Roosevelt a copy of Gena of the Appalachians, a small detail that helps place him in the literary world of his time.