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Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
1860–1936
Best known for the hugely popular Lincoln story The Perfect Tribute, this American writer built a wide readership with historical fiction, short stories, and novels. Her work mixes patriotic feeling, drama, and a lively storytelling style that helped keep her books in print for decades.
11 Audiobooks
The Whole Family: a Novel by Twelve Authors
by William Dean Howells, Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, John Kendrick Bangs, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Henry James, Elizabeth Garver Jordan, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Henry Van Dyke, Mary Heaton Vorse, Edith Wyatt
The eternal masculine : Stories of men and boys
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The Militants Stories of Some Parsons, Soldiers, and Other Fighters in the World
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
A Good Samaritan
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Joy in the Morning
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Yellow Butterflies
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
August First
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews, Roy Irving Murray
The Perfect Tribute
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The Courage of the Commonplace
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
The Lifted Bandage
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
Her country
by Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews
About the author
Born in Mobile, Alabama, in 1860, she became an American writer whose best-known work was The Perfect Tribute, a story about Abraham Lincoln that was widely read and later adapted for film. Sources also note that the book sold in very large numbers when issued on its own, helping make her one of the more recognizable popular historical writers of her day.
She wrote under the name Mary Raymond Andrews after her marriage, though she was born Mary Raymond Shipman. Reference sources describe a long writing career that included novels, short fiction, and other contributions, with much of her work leaning toward historical subjects and patriotic themes.
She died in Syracuse, New York, in 1936. I wasn’t able to confirm a suitable portrait image from the pages I checked, so no profile image is included here.