author
Louis Pendleton
1861–1939
A Georgia novelist and newspaper man whose fiction often returned to Southern landscapes and history, he wrote both novels for adults and adventures for younger readers. His books range from swamp stories and historical tales to a biography of Alexander H. Stephens.
1 Audiobook
About the author
Born in Tebeauville, Georgia, Louis Beauregard Pendleton was a newspaper editor, columnist, and author whose work was closely tied to the American South. He wrote novels and young readers' fiction, and several of his books are set in Southern places and periods that clearly mattered to him.
Alongside his fiction, he also wrote a biography of Alexander H. Stephens. Sources also note that he studied at the Sorbonne in Paris during summers and wrote for the Daily Telegraph in Macon, Georgia, from 1899 to 1914.
Pendleton published across a long career, with works including King Tom and the Runaways, In the Okefenokee, Lost Prince Almon, and Echo of Drums, which appeared in 1938, the year before his death. He never married, and his writing remains a window into the literary world of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century South.