author
Mary Hallock Foote
1847–1938
An accomplished author and illustrator, she brought the mining camps and rough landscapes of the American West to life with unusual warmth and clarity. Her fiction and drawings grew out of firsthand experience, giving her work a vivid, lived-in quality.
6 Audiobooks
In Exile, and Other Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote
The Cup of Trembling, and Other Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote
Stories by American Authors (Volume 4)
by Constance Fenimore Woolson, H. C. (Henry Cuyler) Bunner, John William De Forest, Mary Hallock Foote, Nathaniel Parker Willis
The Desert and the Sown
by Mary Hallock Foote
A Touch of Sun, and Other Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote
The Little Fig-tree Stories
by Mary Hallock Foote
About the author
Born in Milton, New York, in 1847, she grew up in a Quaker family that valued books, ideas, and public causes. She studied art in New York and first built a reputation as an illustrator before turning increasingly to fiction.
After marrying mining engineer Arthur De Wint Foote in 1876, she spent years in mining regions of the American West. Those experiences became the foundation of her best-known stories and novels, which are noted for their detailed portraits of western life and mining communities.
She was both a skilled visual artist and a widely read writer, a combination that gave her work a distinctive voice. Mary Hallock Foote died in Hingham, Massachusetts, in 1938, and she is still remembered for helping shape literary and artistic images of the American West.