author
Ruth McEnery Stuart
1856–1917
Known for vivid Louisiana stories and a warm, often humorous voice, this American writer brought regional life and speech to a wide national readership. Her work appeared in major magazines and later in books that helped make her a notable local-color author of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
6 Audiobooks
Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Gobolinks; or, Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
by Ruth McEnery Stuart, Albert Bigelow Paine
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Sonny, a Christmas Guest
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
About the author
Born in Marksville, Louisiana, Ruth McEnery Stuart wrote fiction, poetry, and sketches shaped by Southern settings and voices. Sources agree that she was born as Mary Routh McEnery and later used the name Ruth McEnery Stuart, though they do not all agree on her exact birth year.
After she was widowed, she supported herself and her family through writing and public readings. Her stories and poems were published in well-known magazines, and she became especially associated with local-color writing that drew on Louisiana and other Southern communities.
She died in 1917 in New York. Today she is remembered for her lively storytelling, dialect writing, and her place in American regional literature, even as modern readers often approach some parts of her work with historical context in mind.