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Edith A. How
Best known for People of Africa, this early-20th-century writer introduced young readers to the continent through a short, wide-ranging survey first published in 1921. Very little biographical information appears to have survived, which gives the work an unusual air of mystery today.
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People of Africa
by Edith A. How
About the author
Edith A. How is a little-documented author associated with People of Africa, a book first published in 1921 and now preserved by sources such as Project Gutenberg and The Online Books Page.
Because reliable biographical records are scarce, not much can be said confidently about her life beyond her authorship of that work. What does remain suggests a writer interested in explaining African peoples and cultures to younger readers in a clear, accessible way.
That scarcity of information makes her one of those authors known mainly through the survival of a single book rather than a well-recorded public career. For modern listeners, her work offers both a period snapshot of educational writing and a reminder that many earlier authors left only faint traces outside their books.