Honoré Morrow

Born Nora Bryant McCue in Ottumwa, Iowa, on February 19, 1880, she later published as Honoré Willsie and Honoré Willsie Morrow. She studied history at the University of Wisconsin, and her early travels around the United States gave her a rich store of settings and material for fiction.

Her career ranged across journalism, magazine editing, short stories, and novels. She served as editor of The Delineator for several years, and her fiction often drew on western landscapes and American social history. Readers came to know her especially for the "Great Captain" trilogy—Forever Free, With Malice Toward None, and The Last Full Measure—a well-researched series centered on Abraham Lincoln.

She later married publisher William Morrow and continued writing under the name Honoré Willsie Morrow. She died in New Haven, Connecticut, on April 12, 1940, but her work still stands out for its mix of storytelling energy, historical interest, and strong feeling for place.