E. Donald (Edmund Donald) Carr

Born in 1829, Edmund Donald Carr was an English clergyman who served for many years as rector of Woolstaston in Shropshire. He is best known for A Night in the Snow; or, A Struggle for Life, a dramatic account drawn from his own ordeal after being caught in a blizzard while traveling to an evening service.

That experience became the heart of his writing: a plainspoken, intensely personal story of endurance, faith, and survival in brutal weather. The book has lasted because it reads not like fiction, but like a calm, honest record of someone pushed to the edge and determined to keep going.

Carr died in 1900. Though he remains a relatively obscure figure, his name endures through this unusual and memorable work, which preserves both a slice of Victorian rural life and a gripping true adventure.