author
Edmund K. Goldsborough
d. 1912
A Washington physician turned storyteller, he wrote vivid fiction and children's tales that drew on life in Maryland and the wider world around him. His best-known work, Ole Mars an' Ole Miss, helped preserve remembered voices and scenes from the Eastern Shore.
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Ole Mars an' Ole Miss
by Edmund K. Goldsborough
About the author
Born in the 1840s and remembered as Dr. Edmund Kennedy Goldsborough, he practiced medicine in Washington, D.C., for many years while also building a side career as an author. Contemporary records describe him as a physician in Washington for nearly 35 years, and library catalogs list him as the author of Ole Mars an' Ole Miss and The Dream Adventures of Little Bill.
Ole Mars an' Ole Miss, published in 1900, is the book most often associated with him. It is a collection of stories centered on African American life on Maryland's Eastern Shore before the Civil War, written in a way that aimed to capture local speech and memory. Whatever readers make of its style today, the book stands as an example of how Goldsborough tried to turn regional history and oral storytelling into literature.
Goldsborough died in 1912 after an illness, according to his obituary record. A usable modern author portrait is hard to confirm, but an image attached to his memorial record survives online, so that is the best available choice here.