author
Margaret Lynn
1870–1958
Best known as a writer of short stories and novels set against Midwestern and Western backdrops, this American author also taught English at the University of Kansas. Her fiction blends romance, humor, and regional detail in a way that still feels lively today.
1 Audiobook
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Born in Missouri in 1870 and later closely connected with Kansas, Margaret Lynn was an American writer and professor whose work appeared in the early 20th century. Sources connected with the University of Kansas identify her as a faculty member in English, and public-domain listings preserve a number of her works.
She wrote short stories as well as novels, including A Stepdaughter of the Prairie. Her writing is often associated with the American West and Midwest, drawing on place, character, and everyday social life rather than grand literary posturing.
Although she is not widely known now, her work has remained accessible through public-domain archives and audiobook collections, which suggests a lasting interest in her storytelling. She died in 1958.