author
Florence Morse Kingsley
1859–1937
A bestselling writer of popular and religious fiction, she became widely known for vivid stories set in biblical times. Her breakout novel, Titus: A Comrade of the Cross, won a major prize and quickly found a large audience.
8 Audiobooks
An Alabaster Box
by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Florence Morse Kingsley
And So They Were Married
by Florence Morse Kingsley
The Transfiguration of Miss Philura
by Florence Morse Kingsley
To the Highest Bidder
by Florence Morse Kingsley
Truthful Jane
by Florence Morse Kingsley
Those Brewster Children
by Florence Morse Kingsley
Tor, a Street Boy of Jerusalem
by Florence Morse Kingsley
Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross
by Florence Morse Kingsley
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1859, Florence Morse Kingsley was an American novelist whose work often blended faith, romance, and historical imagination. She studied at Wellesley College but left after losing her hearing during her student years, a life-changing event that did not stop her from building a successful writing career.
She is best remembered for Titus: A Comrade of the Cross (1894), a novel set in the time of early Christianity that won a cash prize and became a notable success. She went on to write many other books, including Stephen: A Soldier of the Cross, The Cross Triumphant, and later novels of contemporary religious and domestic life.
Kingsley died in 1937. Today she is mainly remembered for the energy and emotion she brought to devotional and historical fiction, especially stories that tried to make the biblical world feel immediate to ordinary readers.