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Lucy Huffaker
Best known today for the short story "The Way of Life," this early-20th-century writer published fiction in major magazines and left behind a small but memorable trail in American periodical literature.
1 Audiobook
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series
by Mary Antin, Elizabeth Ashe, Kathleen Carman, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Mazo De la Roche, Annie Hamilton Donnell, James Edmund Dunning, Rebecca Hooper Eastman, William Addleman Ganoe, Lucy Huffaker, Joseph Husband, S. H. Kemper, Christina Krysto, Ellen Mackubin, Edith Ronald Mirrielees, Margaret Prescott Montague, Edward Morlae, Meredith Nicholson, Kathleen Thompson Norris, Laura Spencer Portor, Lucy Pratt, Elsie Singmaster, Charles Haskins Townsend, Edith Wyatt
About the author
Lucy Huffaker appears to have been an American fiction writer active in the 1910s. Reliable online records for her life are very sparse, but library and public-domain sources do confirm her as the author of short stories from that period.
Her best-known surviving work is "The Way of Life," which was published in The Atlantic on January 1, 1913. Other periodical indexes also credit her with stories including "Money Poor," "Eve's Daughters," "The Only Town-Crier Left," "Rowena and the Front Page," and "Love the All-Conquering," suggesting a writer who was publishing regularly in prominent magazines of the day.
Because so little biographical information is easy to verify, her work stands at the center of her legacy. "The Way of Life" was later preserved in the 1918 collection Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories, Second Series, helping keep her voice available to modern readers and listeners through public-domain archives.