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Evelyn Snead Barnett
1854–1921
A Louisville writer, editor, and lecturer, she moved easily between magazine fiction, children's books, and literary life in the American South. Her career also reached into civic and cultural work, including the founding circles that helped shape Louisville's book culture.
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Jerry's Reward
by Evelyn Snead Barnett
About the author
Born in 1854 and remembered as Evelyn Scott Snead Barnett, she was an American author associated with Louisville, Kentucky. Surviving records and library listings connect her with short stories, novels, and children's writing, including Mrs. Délire's Euchre Party, Jerry's Reward, and The Dragnet.
Barnett was more than a book author. Historical sources about Louisville's literary scene describe her as a founder of the Authors Club of Louisville, and later accounts also remember her as an editor of the Courier-Journal's book page and a Chautauqua lecturer. That picture suggests a writer who was deeply involved in helping readers and writers meet each other, not just publishing her own work.
She died in 1921, but her work remains accessible through major digital libraries such as Project Gutenberg, the Internet Archive, and university or public-library catalogs. While some biographical details are thin or inconsistent across modern references, the record clearly shows a productive literary figure whose writing ranged from popular fiction to books for younger readers.