author
Ellen Mackubin
d. 1915
A late-19th-century American fiction writer, she published stories in major magazines and left behind a small body of work that captures everyday life, social pressures, and human weakness with a sharp eye. Her writing feels rooted in the magazine world of its time while still staying readable and direct.
1 Audiobook
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
Born in Chicago on November 4, 1851, Ellen Mackubin was an American author of fiction. Reliable catalog and library sources identify her as a contributor to The Atlantic, and surviving records connect her with published works including The King of the Town and A Coward and Other Stories.
Her work appeared in the era when magazines were an important home for short fiction, and later collections preserved some of those stories after her death. A University of Virginia archival record also notes that she was the sister of the artist Florence MacKubin.
Mackubin died on October 2, 1915, in Roanoke, Virginia. Although she is not widely known today, her stories remain of interest to readers exploring American magazine fiction from the late 1800s and early 1900s.