author

Ellen Mackubin

d. 1915

A little-known American fiction writer from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, she is remembered for stories and novels including The King of the Town and A coward and other stories. Her work still survives through library and public-domain collections, giving modern readers a glimpse of popular literary tastes of her era.

1 Audiobook

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

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

Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm online, but library records do establish that Ellen Mackubin died in 1915. She wrote fiction, and surviving catalogs connect her with works including The King of the Town (1898) and A coward and other stories, which was published after her death.

Because so few dependable biographical details are readily available, her life remains somewhat obscure compared with many better-known writers of her time. What has lasted is the work itself: her stories continue to be preserved by libraries, digitization projects, and booksellers interested in rediscovering forgotten authors.

That makes her an intriguing figure for curious readers. Even without a full public record of her life, the surviving editions of her fiction offer a small but genuine literary legacy from the closing years of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th.