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Ernest Starr
Best known today for the short story "The Clearer Sight," this little-documented writer has a knack for turning a dramatic situation into a moral test. The surviving record is sparse, which gives the story itself an extra sense of discovery.
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Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Ernest Starr is a little-known early 20th-century writer whose work survives mainly through magazine and anthology reprints. The story most clearly linked to him is "The Clearer Sight," first published in The Atlantic in September 1909 and later included in the 1918 anthology Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories.
What stands out about Starr is how often his name appears through that single piece. In the anthology's introduction, editor Charles Swain Thomas singled out "The Clearer Sight" as an especially effective example of short-story craft, suggesting that Starr's work was admired for its structure as well as its emotional force.
Beyond that, reliable biographical detail is hard to confirm from the sources available here. No clear author biography or verified portrait turned up, so Starr remains one of those writers known less through a public life story than through the quiet endurance of a memorable story.