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Margaret Prescott Montague
1878–1955
Known for vivid stories set in the southern mountains, this American writer brought West Virginia landscapes and folklore to a wide early-20th-century audience. Her fiction ranged from novels to magazine stories, with a gift for memorable regional characters.
3 Audiobooks
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
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
Deep channel
by Margaret Prescott Montague
About the author
Born at Oakhurst near White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Margaret Prescott Montague became an American novelist and short story writer whose work was deeply shaped by Appalachian life. Reference sources agree that she was born in 1878 and died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1955.
Her books and stories were set largely in the southern mountains, and she became especially associated with writing about West Virginia people, customs, and storytelling traditions. She also wrote under the pen name Jane Steger, and her short fiction earned notable recognition, including an O. Henry Award.
Montague's work appeared in major magazines and helped carry regional fiction to a national readership. She is still remembered for the way she turned local places, speech, and folklore into lively, readable fiction.