Frances Wilson Huard

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Frances Wilson Huard

1885–1969

An American-born writer who turned her life in France during World War I into vivid memoirs, she wrote with immediacy, warmth, and an eyewitness sense of history. Her books bring everyday wartime life into focus through the lens of home, work, and resilience.

2 Audiobooks

My Home in the Field of Honor

My Home in the Field of Honor

by Frances Wilson Huard

With Those Who Wait

With Those Who Wait

by Frances Wilson Huard

About the author

Born in New York City on October 2, 1885, Frances Wilson Huard was an American writer, translator, and lecturer who spent much of her life in France. She is best known for memoirs drawn from her experiences during World War I, when she was living there with her husband, the French artist and illustrator Charles Huard.

Her best-known books include My Home in the Field of Honour (1916), My Home in the Field of Mercy (1917), and With Those Who Wait (1918). These works are remembered for their personal, ground-level view of wartime France, blending daily life with the strain and duty of a country at war.

Frances Wilson Huard died in February 1969. Today, she remains of interest to readers looking for firsthand writing about France in the First World War, especially work that captures both the domestic and human side of conflict.