Douglass Sherley

George Douglass Sherley (June 27, 1857–December 28, 1917) was an American author, journalist, and poet from Louisville, Kentucky. He graduated from Centre College, studied law at the University of Virginia, and worked for the Louisville Courier-Journal before turning much of his attention to literary writing.

Sherley published poetry, short stories, and novels, and he is remembered today for works including A Few Short Sketches and The Inner Sisterhood. Accounts of his life consistently place him in Kentucky’s literary scene of the late 1800s and early 1900s, where he wrote with the confidence of someone who knew both newspaper culture and genteel society.

Reliable portrait images were not clearly available from the page I could confirm during this search, so no profile image is included here.