author
Elsie Singmaster
1879–1958
Best known for vivid stories rooted in Pennsylvania Dutch country, this prolific American writer brought small-town lives, family ties, and regional history to a wide audience. Her work ranged from novels and short stories to books for younger readers, with a Newbery Honor among her distinctions.
12 Audiobooks
Basil Everman
by Elsie Singmaster
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
Under Many Flags
by Katharine Scherer Cronk, Elsie Singmaster
Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath
by Elsie Singmaster
John Baring's House
by Elsie Singmaster
Emmeline
by Elsie Singmaster
The Long Journey
by Elsie Singmaster
When Sarah Went to School
by Elsie Singmaster
When Sarah Saved the Day
by Elsie Singmaster
Katy Gaumer
by Elsie Singmaster
Ellen Levis: A Novel
by Elsie Singmaster
The Story of Lutheran Missions
by Elsie Singmaster
About the author
Born in Pennsylvania in 1879, she grew up in a Lutheran minister’s family and later studied at Radcliffe College. Writing under her maiden name, she became known for fiction closely tied to eastern Pennsylvania, especially the Pennsylvania German communities and local traditions she knew so well.
Over the course of her career, she published a large body of work, including novels, short stories, and children’s books. Swords of Steel was named a Newbery Honor book in 1934, and many readers remember her for the way she turned regional history and everyday life into warm, readable fiction.
She died in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1958. Today she is remembered as an important regional writer whose books preserve the voices, landscapes, and cultural memory of Pennsylvania in the early 20th century.