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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
1857–1948
A sharp, independent American novelist, she turned California life, history, and society into fiction with real bite. Her work ranged from bestselling sensation novels to essays on politics, war, and women's lives.
33 Audiobooks
The aristocrats : being the impressions of the Lady Helen Pole during her sojourn in the Great North Woods as spontaneously recorded in her letters to her friend in North Britain, the Countess of Edge and Ross
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Perch of the Devil
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Sisters-In-Law: A Novel of Our Time
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Avalanche: A Mystery Story
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Transplanted : A novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Tower of Ivory: A Novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Black Oxen
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Gorgeous Isle: A Romance; Scene-- Nevis, B.W.I. 1842
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Ancestors: A Novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Doomswoman: An Historical Romance of Old California
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Mrs. Pendleton's Four-in-hand
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Senator North
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Splendid Idle Forties: Stories of Old California
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
A Daughter of the Vine
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Californians
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Rulers of kings: A novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Mrs. Balfame: A Novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
What Dreams May Come
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Crystal Cup
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
A Whirl Asunder
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Life in the War Zone
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The White Morning: A Novel of the Power of the German Women in Wartime
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Hermia Suydam
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Rezanov
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Living Present
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Sleeping Fires: a Novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
His fortunate Grace
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Julia France and Her Times: A Novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Valiant Runaways
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The Travelling Thirds
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
Patience Sparhawk and Her Times: A Novel
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
About the author
Born in San Francisco on October 30, 1857, Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton became one of the most widely read American writers of her day. Much of her fiction draws on California settings and history, giving her novels a strong sense of place as well as a keen interest in social ambition, power, and independence.
She wrote novels, short stories, essays, and journalism, and she did not keep her opinions quiet. Alongside fiction, she published pieces on feminism, politics, and war, and she became especially well known for Black Oxen (1923), a bestseller later adapted into a silent film.
Atherton died in San Francisco on June 14, 1948. She is remembered for energetic storytelling, strong-willed characters, and a career that helped make Western American settings feel central to literary life rather than distant from it.