Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews

Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews grew up in Lexington, Kentucky, and went on to become an American writer with a strong gift for historical storytelling. She married William Shankland Andrews in 1884, and her fiction later appeared in widely read magazines before being collected in books.

She is best remembered for The Perfect Tribute, a story centered on Abraham Lincoln that became enormously popular and was later adapted for film more than once. Andrews also wrote other historical novels and stories, building a reputation for dramatizing American subjects in a way that was accessible to a broad readership.

She died in Syracuse, New York, in 1936. While she is not as widely read now as she once was, her work remains a snapshot of the patriotic historical fiction that captivated many readers in her era.