author
Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer
1865–1929
A journalist-turned-fiction writer, she moved from newspaper work into stories and essays that often carry a clear moral edge. Her books range from short fiction and social reflection to an early science-fiction mystery co-written at the end of the nineteenth century.
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 Bryan, Ohio, on March 26, 1865, Cornelia Atwood Pratt later wrote under the name Cornelia A. P. Comer after her 1905 marriage to William D. Comer. A Vassar graduate, she worked in journalism and was reportedly on the staff of the New York Critic, later serving as an editorial writer for the St. Paul Globe and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Her listed books include A Book of Martyrs, The Daughters of a Stoic, A Letter to the Rising Generation, and The Preliminaries, and Other Stories. She also wrote "The Little Gray Ghost," and she is remembered in science-fiction reference works for Dr Berkeley's Discovery (1899), a mystery with speculative elements written with Richard Slee.
Comer died on December 29, 1929, at Rolling Bay, Washington. Her career connects late nineteenth-century magazine culture, newspaper writing, and early popular fiction, making her an interesting rediscovery for listeners who enjoy thoughtful, period storytelling.