author
Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer
1865–1929
A journalist turned novelist and story writer, she brought a sharp eye for people and social pressures to her fiction. Her work moves easily between magazine realism, family drama, and an early brush with speculative mystery.
4 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
A book of martyrs
by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer
The Preliminaries, and Other Stories
by Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer
About the author
Born in 1865, Cornelia Atwood Pratt Comer was an American writer who published fiction and essays under the name Cornelia A. P. Comer. Contemporary biographical sources describe her as a magazine and newspaper writer who served on the staff of the New York Critic and later worked as an editorial writer for the St. Paul Globe and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
She wrote both fiction and nonfiction, including A Book of Martyrs, The Daughters of a Stoic, A Letter to the Rising Generation, and the story collection The Preliminaries, and Other Stories. Her writing is remembered for its interest in personal relationships and social expectations, and she also has a small place in early speculative fiction through Dr. Berkeley's Discovery, a mystery with science-fiction elements.
Comer died in 1929. Although she does not seem to have a widely available modern biography, the record that survives suggests a versatile literary career that stretched across journalism, essays, short stories, and novels.