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F. J. Louriet
Best known today for the short story "What Road Goeth He?," this elusive early-20th-century writer appears in the pages of The Atlantic and in the 1918 collection Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories.
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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
Very little firmly documented biographical information about F. J. Louriet is easy to confirm from widely available sources, which gives the name a slightly mysterious edge. What can be confirmed is that Louriet wrote "What Road Goeth He?", a story published by The Atlantic and later included in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories in 1918.
Modern catalog and public-domain sources also show Louriet as one of the contributors to that anthology, alongside a range of better-known magazine and literary writers of the period. Because reliable biographical records are scarce in the sources reviewed, it is safest to remember F. J. Louriet chiefly through this surviving published work rather than through a well-documented personal history.
For listeners who enjoy rediscovering half-hidden literary voices, Louriet offers exactly that: a writer preserved less by biography than by the atmosphere and storytelling of a single memorable appearance in a respected early twentieth-century collection.