author
M. T. W.
A little-known 19th-century writer remembered for a single surviving collection of children's stories, this author mixed adventure, family life, and gentle moral lessons in a warm, lively style. The best-known book follows young Connor Magan through mishaps and acts of bravery along the Ohio River.
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Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories
by M. T. W.
About the author
Very little biographical information could be confirmed about this author, who appears in surviving records only under the initials M. T. W. Rather than a well-documented public figure, the name is mainly preserved through bibliographic listings and digital editions.
The work most clearly connected to the author is Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories, published in Boston by D. Lothrop & Company in 1881. The collection gathers short stories for younger readers and is now available through Project Gutenberg, which has helped keep the book in circulation long after its original publication.
Because reliable sources do not seem to identify the full name behind the initials, it is safest to treat M. T. W. as an obscure author of late-19th-century juvenile fiction whose reputation rests on this single known collection.