author
Meredith Nicholson
1866–1947
A bestselling Indiana novelist, journalist, and diplomat, he wrote brisk, entertaining fiction that made him a national name in the early 1900s. Today he is especially remembered for The House of a Thousand Candles and for his place in Indiana's literary golden age.
28 Audiobooks
Lady Larkspur
by Meredith Nicholson
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
A Reversible Santa Claus
by Meredith Nicholson
The Proof of the Pudding
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
A Hoosier Chronicle
by Meredith Nicholson
The House of a Thousand Candles
by Meredith Nicholson
The man in the street: Papers on American topics
by Meredith Nicholson
The provincial American and other papers
by Meredith Nicholson
The Madness of May
by Meredith Nicholson
Short Flights
by Meredith Nicholson
The Port of Missing Men
by Meredith Nicholson
Broken Barriers
by Meredith Nicholson
The Siege of the Seven Suitors
by Meredith Nicholson
The war of the Carolinas
by Meredith Nicholson
Zelda Dameron
by Meredith Nicholson
The hope of happiness
by Meredith Nicholson
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
by Meredith Nicholson
The Valley of Democracy
by Meredith Nicholson
Rosalind at Red Gate
by Meredith Nicholson
The Poet
by Meredith Nicholson
Best laid schemes
by Meredith Nicholson
Otherwise Phyllis
by Meredith Nicholson
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare
by Meredith Nicholson
The Main Chance
by Meredith Nicholson
The Hoosiers
by Meredith Nicholson
The Lords of High Decision
by Meredith Nicholson
Style and the Man
by Meredith Nicholson
About the author
Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, on December 9, 1866, Meredith Nicholson grew up in Indianapolis and was largely self-taught. He began working in newspapers as a young man, including at the Indianapolis Sentinel and the Indianapolis News, before building a successful career as an author.
Nicholson published poetry, essays, history, and fiction, but his widest fame came from his popular novels. His early twentieth-century books, including The Main Chance and The House of a Thousand Candles, were major successes, and his writing helped make him one of the best-known Indiana authors of his day.
Later in life, he also served in public roles, including diplomatic posts in Paraguay, Venezuela, and Nicaragua. He died on December 22, 1947, leaving behind a body of work that connects popular storytelling with the literary life of Indiana.