author
Eyre Damer
1854–1922
A Southern writer remembered today for When the Ku Klux Rode, a 1912 account of Reconstruction-era violence and politics. Very little biographical detail is widely documented, which gives his surviving work an outsized place in how he is known.
1 Audiobook
When the Ku Klux Rode
by Eyre Damer
About the author
Eyre Damer was an American author born in 1854 and died in 1922. Surviving catalog records and library listings confirm him as the author of When the Ku Klux Rode, and public-domain and audiobook catalogs show that this is the work most closely associated with his name.
Reliable biographical information about Damer appears to be scarce in easily accessible reference sources. Based on the records available here, he is chiefly remembered through that book rather than through a well-documented public literary career.
For listeners coming to his work now, Damer is best approached as a historical voice from the early twentieth century whose writing reflects the views and conflicts of his era. That makes his work notable both as a period text and as a document that can be read critically in its historical context.