author
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
1878–1962
A pioneering Stanford teacher and writer, she helped shape early creative writing in the United States and encouraged students who would go on to become major literary voices. Her own books, including guides to storytelling and grammar, reflect a practical, clear-eyed love of language.
1 Audiobook
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
About the author
Born in Pittsfield, Illinois, on September 10, 1878, and raised in Big Timber, Montana, Edith Ronald Mirrielees studied at Stanford University after first teaching in Montana public schools. She went on to spend much of her career at Stanford, where she became known as an influential teacher of English and creative writing.
Mirrielees is often remembered for the impact she had on her students, among them John Steinbeck, and for helping establish creative writing as a serious field of study. Alongside her teaching, she wrote books of her own, including Story Writing and A Grammar of Functional English, works praised for their direct, useful approach to craft and language.
She died on June 3, 1962. Today, she is remembered both as an author and as a teacher whose steady guidance left a lasting mark on American literary life.