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Lester Shepard Parker
1860–1925
A remarkably versatile early-20th-century American writer, he also moved through public life as a businessman, composer, painter, and lecturer. Best known in literature for Nancy MacIntyre: A Tale of the Prairies, he brought a wide-ranging, energetic life to his work.
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Nancy MacIntyre: A Tale of the Prairies
by Lester Shepard Parker
About the author
Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1860, Lester Shepard Parker built an unusually varied career. Sources describe him not only as a writer, but also as a businessman and public figure in Missouri, with interests that extended into music composition and painting.
His best-known literary work is Nancy MacIntyre: A Tale of the Prairies, published in the early 1910s and later made widely available through public-domain libraries. Other surviving materials tied to his name show the same broad creative streak, including songs and pieces of verse.
Parker died in 1925. What stands out most in the available record is how many different worlds he moved through: literature, music, art, and civic life, all at once, giving him the feel of a true all-around man of letters from his era.