author
Edith Ronald Mirrielees
1878–1962
A pioneering Stanford teacher of creative writing, she helped shape generations of young writers, including John Steinbeck. She also wrote practical guides to storytelling and books about Stanford’s history.
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, in 1878 and raised in Big Timber, Montana, Edith Ronald Mirrielees first taught in Montana public schools before entering Stanford University in 1903. She studied history, then English, and went on to become a longtime member of Stanford’s English faculty.
Mirrielees is best remembered as an influential teacher of creative writing. She taught at Stanford for decades and inspired many students, among them John Steinbeck. Alongside her teaching, she wrote books including Story Writing and later works on Stanford’s past, reflecting both her love of craft and her deep connection to the university.
She died in 1962, but her reputation has lasted as that of a gifted, demanding, and deeply respected mentor whose classroom left a real mark on American literary life.