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Lucy Huffaker

A journalist and fiction writer active in the 1910s, she moved between social reporting and storytelling in a way that still feels vivid today.

1 Audiobook

Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series

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 is a little-observed early 20th-century American author whose surviving record suggests she was active mainly in the 1910s. Catalog and archival sources connect her with published writing from that period, and one archive identifies her more fully as Lucy Powers Huffaker (1876–1957).

What stands out most is the range of her work. Archival material links her to newspaper interviewing and social-interest writing, while public-domain book and audiobook catalogs preserve her fiction and other literary pieces. That mix hints at a writer who was comfortable both reporting on real lives and shaping stories for general readers.

Because reliable biographical information about her is limited online, many personal details remain unclear. Even so, the available records place her among the many women writers and journalists whose work circulated widely in magazines, newspapers, and books without leaving behind a large modern profile.