author
Richard Aumerle Maher
1880–1959
An early 20th-century novelist with a strong interest in moral conflict and faith, he wrote fiction that moved between spiritual struggle, wartime feeling, and regional storytelling.
2 Audiobooks
The Shepherd of the North
by Richard Aumerle Maher
The Hills of Desire
by Richard Aumerle Maher
About the author
Richard Aumerle Maher was an American author born in 1880 and died in 1959. Surviving catalog and library records connect him with a run of books published mainly in the 1910s and early 1920s, including The Heart of a Man (1915), The Shepherd of the North (1916), Gold Must Be Tried by Fire (1917), While Shepherds Watched (1917), The Hills of Desire (1919), and The Works of Satan (1921).
His titles suggest a writer drawn to big inner questions: conscience, temptation, belief, love, and endurance. Several books were issued by major publishers of the day, especially Macmillan, and his work appears to have ranged from religiously inflected fiction to novels shaped by the mood of the First World War.
Very little reliable biographical detail seems to be easily documented online beyond his dates and bibliography, which gives him a slightly elusive quality today. What remains clear is the character of the work itself: earnest, thoughtful fiction from an author interested in the testing of human nature.