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Ruth McEnery Stuart
1856–1917
Best known for vivid stories of Louisiana and the post-Civil War South, this American writer won readers with warm humor, sharp observation, and a strong ear for regional speech. Her fiction helped make local-color writing popular with magazine audiences in the late 19th century.
6 Audiobooks
Gobolinks; or, Shadow Pictures for Young and Old
by Albert Bigelow Paine, Ruth McEnery Stuart
Daddy Do-Funny's Wisdom Jingles
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
The River's Children: An Idyl of the Mississippi
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
Sonny, a Christmas Guest
by Ruth McEnery Stuart
About the author
Born in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, in 1856, Ruth McEnery Stuart grew up in the South she would later write about so memorably. She was educated in New Orleans, married Alfred C. Stuart in 1879, and began publishing fiction in the 1880s.
Her breakthrough came with short stories that drew on Southern settings and everyday lives, including "Uncle 'Riah's Tightness," which helped establish her reputation. She became especially admired for local-color fiction, writing with humor, sympathy, and careful attention to dialect and character.
Stuart went on to publish widely read story collections and novels, building a national readership through magazines as well as books. She died in 1917, but her work remains notable for its lively portraits of Louisiana life and its place in American regional literature.