author
Eliot McCormick
1849–1891
A 19th-century writer and editor whose books opened up travel, adventure, and far-off places for young readers. His best-known work gathers lively stories of journeys and customs from around the world, shaped into reading meant to spark curiosity.
1 Audiobook
Wonder Stories of Travel
by Eliot McCormick, E. E. (Emma Elizabeth) Brown, Ernest Ingersoll, David Ker
About the author
Born in New York on May 5, 1849, Eliot McCormick was an American writer and editor. Genealogy and memorial records place his death in Noroton, Connecticut, on October 10, 1891, and a family reference on his daughter Theodora McCormick Du Bois's Wikipedia page identifies him as a writer and editor.
McCormick is associated with children's and juvenile reading from the 1880s. Archive and library records credit him as the author of Peace Island (1883) and as a contributor to Wonder Stories of Travel (1886), a collection of travel pieces published by D. Lothrop and Company and reprinted from Wide Awake Pleasure Book.
Reliable biographical detail about his life appears to be scarce, so only a small outline can be confirmed. Even so, the surviving record suggests a writer interested in making geography, travel, and storytelling vivid and accessible for younger readers.