author
Meredith Nicholson
1866–1947
Best known for brisk, popular novels like The House of a Thousand Candles, this Indiana writer moved easily between journalism, fiction, politics, and diplomacy. His work helped define a lively chapter in Midwestern literary life at the start of the 20th century.
28 Audiobooks
My Story That I Like Best
by Irvin S. (Irvin Shrewsbury) Cobb, James Oliver Curwood, Edna Ferber, Peter B. (Peter Bernard) Kyne, Meredith Nicholson, H. C. (Harry Charles) Witwer
Lady Larkspur
by Meredith Nicholson
A Reversible Santa Claus
by Meredith Nicholson
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
The Proof of the Pudding
by Meredith Nicholson
A Hoosier Chronicle
by Meredith Nicholson
The House of a Thousand Candles
by Meredith Nicholson
The provincial American and other papers
by Meredith Nicholson
The man in the street: Papers on American topics
by Meredith Nicholson
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
by Meredith Nicholson
Short Flights
by Meredith Nicholson
The Madness of May
by Meredith Nicholson
The war of the Carolinas
by Meredith Nicholson
The hope of happiness
by Meredith Nicholson
The Siege of the Seven Suitors
by Meredith Nicholson
Rosalind at Red Gate
by Meredith Nicholson
The Port of Missing Men
by Meredith Nicholson
The Poet
by Meredith Nicholson
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare
by Meredith Nicholson
Broken Barriers
by Meredith Nicholson
Best laid schemes
by Meredith Nicholson
Otherwise Phyllis
by Meredith Nicholson
The Valley of Democracy
by Meredith Nicholson
The Hoosiers
by Meredith Nicholson
The Lords of High Decision
by Meredith Nicholson
Style and the Man
by Meredith Nicholson
Zelda Dameron
by Meredith Nicholson
The Main Chance
by Meredith Nicholson
About the author
Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on December 9, 1866, he was largely self-taught and began working in newspapers while still young. After time at the Indianapolis Sentinel and the Indianapolis News, he built a wide-ranging writing career that included poetry, essays, and many novels.
Nicholson became one of the better-known Hoosier authors of his era. He wrote dozens of books and is especially remembered for best-selling novels such as The House of a Thousand Candles, along with other light romances and adventures that found a wide readership in the early 1900s.
His life extended beyond literature. He was active in public affairs and later served in diplomatic posts, adding politics and government service to an already varied career. He died in Indianapolis in December 1947, leaving behind a body of work closely tied to Indiana's "golden age" of literature.