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Marion Cook Stow
1875–1910
A gifted Oregon writer whose brief career produced vivid poems and stories rooted in the Pacific Northwest. Her work includes the poetry books Where Flows Hood River and Voices of the City, along with fiction for children.
1 Audiobook
The Child and the Dream: A Christmas Story
by Marion Cook Stow
About the author
Born in Sandusky, Ohio, on June 7, 1875, Marion Cook Stow moved to Oregon as a child and grew up to become a promising regional writer. Contemporary and historical sources describe her as an Oregon poet and storyteller whose work drew on local landscapes and city life.
Her known books include Where Flows Hood River (1907), a collection of poems, and Voices of the City (1909), which was published with original drawings and decorations. She also wrote for children; The Child and the Dream: A Christmas Story is the best-known example that remains widely available today.
Stow died in 1910, still quite young, and later accounts remembered her as a writer of notable promise whose career was cut short. Even so, her surviving work offers a small but distinctive window into early twentieth-century Oregon writing.