author
Elsie Singmaster
1879–1958
Raised in Pennsylvania Dutch country, this prolific novelist and short-story writer brought the lives, speech, and history of Pennsylvania Germans to a wide American audience. Her work ranged from local-color fiction to children's books, including a Newbery Honor title.
12 Audiobooks
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
John Baring's House
by Elsie Singmaster
Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath
by Elsie Singmaster
Under Many Flags
by Katharine Scherer Cronk, Elsie Singmaster
Basil Everman
by Elsie Singmaster
Emmeline
by Elsie Singmaster
When Sarah Went to School
by Elsie Singmaster
The Long Journey
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 on August 29, 1879, in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, she grew up in several Pennsylvania communities while her father served as a Lutheran minister. She later graduated from Radcliffe College and went on to build a remarkably productive writing career under her maiden name, even after marrying Harold Lewars.
She became especially known for fiction about Pennsylvania German life, writing with sympathy and detail about the people and traditions of eastern Pennsylvania. Over the course of her career she published dozens of books and hundreds of short stories, and her 1933 children's novel Swords of Steel was named a Newbery Honor Book.
She spent much of her later life in Gettysburg and remained closely identified with Pennsylvania history and regional culture. She died on September 30, 1958, leaving behind a body of work that helped preserve a vivid picture of Pennsylvania Dutch and small-town American life.