author
Dell H. Munger
b. 1862
Best known for a single early-20th-century novel, this Midwestern writer drew on farm life and hard-earned experience to tell a determined, deeply human story.
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The Wind Before the Dawn
by Dell H. Munger
About the author
Born on December 15, 1862, near Chicago, Dell H. Munger was an American author associated with Nebraska. Reliable library and author-reference sources agree that she wrote The Wind Before the Dawn, a novel first published in 1912.
Accounts of her background consistently connect her with Plattsmouth, Nebraska, and note that she attended high school there. Sources also describe a short period of study at Omaha Medical College, though she did not graduate.
Munger is remembered chiefly for The Wind Before the Dawn, a work described by Nebraska literary sources as drawing on her experiences of growing up on Midwestern farms. That gives her fiction a grounded, regional feel, centered on the struggles and resilience of everyday rural life.