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Edward Everett Hale
1822–1909
Best remembered for the Civil War story The Man Without a Country, this energetic Boston writer and minister mixed storytelling with a strong sense of public duty. His books often carry the warmth, reforming spirit, and moral confidence of nineteenth-century New England.
13 Audiobooks
The Brick Moon, and Other Stories
by Edward Everett Hale
Who Ate the Pink Sweetmeat? And Other Christmas Stories
by Susan Coolidge, Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Kate Upson Clark, Lady Dunboyne, Edward Everett Hale, F. L. Stealey
The Life of Columbus From His Own Letters and Journals and Other Documents of His Time
by Edward Everett Hale
The Man Without a Country, and Other Tales
by Edward Everett Hale
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day: Ten Christmas stories
by Edward Everett Hale
Stories of Invention, Told by Inventors and their Friends
by Edward Everett Hale
How to Do It
by Edward Everett Hale
If, Yes and Perhaps Four Possibilities and Six Exaggerations with Some Bits of Fact
by Edward Everett Hale
James Russell Lowell and His Friends
by Edward Everett Hale
Cuentos Clásicos del Norte, Segunda Serie
by Washington Irving, Edward Everett Hale, Nathaniel Hawthorne
The Man Without a Country
by Edward Everett Hale
Crusoe in New York, and other tales
by Edward Everett Hale
Stories of adventure, as told by adventurers
by Edward Everett Hale
About the author
Born in Boston in 1822, Edward Everett Hale became a Unitarian minister, author, editor, and public intellectual whose career reached far beyond the pulpit. Standard reference sources agree that he is most widely remembered for The Man Without a Country, the patriotic short story that made him famous during the Civil War era.
Hale wrote fiction, history, essays, and memoir, and he was known for bringing a lively, practical spirit to both religion and literature. Britannica notes that he trained early on his father's newspaper, the Boston Daily Advertiser, which helps explain the direct, accessible style that runs through much of his work.
His life also had a strong civic side. In addition to his writing and ministry, Hale was associated with reform-minded social work and later served as chaplain of the United States Senate. He died in 1909, leaving behind a body of work shaped by optimism, service, and a belief that literature could help strengthen public life.