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Ella Higginson
1862–1940
A once-famous Pacific Northwest writer, she was celebrated in her lifetime for vivid stories, poems, and essays rooted in the landscapes and communities of Oregon and Washington. Her work helped bring national attention to literary writing from the region.
2 Audiobooks
From the Land of the Snow-Pearls: Tales from Puget Sound
by Ella Higginson
Alaska, the Great Country
by Ella Higginson
About the author
Born in Kansas around 1862, she traveled west with her family as a small child and grew up in Oregon. She later settled in Bellingham, Washington, where she built a prolific writing career that included poetry, short stories, essays, a novel, and travel writing.
Her fiction and verse are closely tied to the Pacific Northwest, and she became one of the best-known literary voices from the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She published widely in magazines and books, and her poem "Four-Leaf Clover" was especially popular with readers of her day.
She was also recognized in Washington literary life as the state’s first Poet Laureate. Although she is less widely read now than she once was, her work remains important for its strong sense of place and for the picture it gives of Northwestern life and culture in her era.