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Margaret Prescott Montague
1878–1955
Known for fiction rooted in the southern mountains, this early 20th-century American writer also reached a national audience through magazines and an O. Henry Award-winning story. Several of her novels were later adapted for film, showing how widely her work traveled beyond the page.
3 Audiobooks
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Katharine Butler, 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, 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
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
Deep channel
by Margaret Prescott Montague
About the author
Born in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, Margaret Prescott Montague became known as an American novelist and short story writer whose work was often shaped by Appalachian settings and characters. Her books included The Poet, Miss Kate, and I, The Sowing of Alderson Cree, In Calvert's Valley, Linda, and Deep Channel.
She published fiction in major magazines, including The Atlantic and Harper's, and won the 1919 O. Henry Award for "England to America." Some of her writing also appeared under the pseudonym Jane Steger.
Montague's career reached into other media as well: several of her novels were adapted into silent and early sound films, including Seeds of Vengeance, Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge, Calvert's Valley, and Linda. She died in Richmond, Virginia, in 1955, leaving behind a body of work that connects regional storytelling with a wider American readership.