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Meredith Nicholson
1866–1947
Best remembered for lively early-20th-century novels like The House of a Thousand Candles, this Indiana writer also stepped into public life as a diplomat and civic figure. His career connected popular fiction, state politics, and American cultural life in a way that still feels distinctive.
28 Audiobooks
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 House of a Thousand Candles
by Meredith Nicholson
A Hoosier Chronicle
by Meredith Nicholson
A Reversible Santa Claus
by Meredith Nicholson
The Lords of High Decision
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
Otherwise Phyllis
by Meredith Nicholson
The Little Brown Jug at Kildare
by Meredith Nicholson
The Main Chance
by Meredith Nicholson
Blacksheep! Blacksheep!
by Meredith Nicholson
The hope of happiness
by Meredith Nicholson
Zelda Dameron
by Meredith Nicholson
Style and the Man
by Meredith Nicholson
Lady Larkspur
by Meredith Nicholson
The Madness of May
by Meredith Nicholson
The man in the street: Papers on American topics
by Meredith Nicholson
Rosalind at Red Gate
by Meredith Nicholson
Best laid schemes
by Meredith Nicholson
Broken Barriers
by Meredith Nicholson
The Siege of the Seven Suitors
by Meredith Nicholson
The Proof of the Pudding
by Meredith Nicholson
The Valley of Democracy
by Meredith Nicholson
The Hoosiers
by Meredith Nicholson
The Port of Missing Men
by Meredith Nicholson
The provincial American and other papers
by Meredith Nicholson
The war of the Carolinas
by Meredith Nicholson
The Poet
by Meredith Nicholson
Short Flights
by Meredith Nicholson
About the author
Born in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1866, Meredith Nicholson built his reputation as a novelist, poet, and essayist during the years when Indiana produced an unusual number of widely read authors. He became especially well known for The House of a Thousand Candles, a bestselling mystery-adventure novel that helped make him a national name.
Nicholson was more than a literary figure. He was active in public affairs in Indiana and later served the United States in diplomatic posts, including appointments to Paraguay and to Venezuela. That mix of storytelling, civic engagement, and diplomacy gave his career a broader reach than that of many popular novelists of his era.
He died in 1947, but he remains an interesting part of American literary history: a writer tied to the Midwest, the magazine and bestseller culture of the early 1900s, and a moment when authors could move easily between literature and public service.