author
Lucy Huffaker
Remembered for the short story "The Way of Life," this early 20th-century writer published in The Atlantic and moved in reform-minded circles of her time. The surviving record is slim, but her work still surfaces through public-domain archives and audiobook collections.
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, also identified in historical records as Lucy Powers Huffaker (1876–1957), was an American writer whose work appeared in the early 1900s. Her best-known story, "The Way of Life," was published in The Atlantic in January 1913, and her fiction was later included in Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories, Second Series.
The biographical trail is limited, but a Jane Addams correspondence record links her to the name Lucy Powers Huffaker and notes the alternate name Lucy Huffaker Goodman, suggesting connections to the reform and literary networks of her era. Modern public-domain and audiobook catalogs also describe her as a writer active in the 1910s.
Because so little well-confirmed personal information is readily available, what stands out most today is the writing itself: a small but intriguing surviving body of work from the magazine and anthology world of the early 20th century.