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S. H. Kemper
Known today mainly through a small trail of early 20th-century magazine fiction, this writer left behind work that still feels sharp and curious. The surviving record is thin, but it clearly places S. H. Kemper among the contributors to The Atlantic and to a notable 1918 short-story anthology.
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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
About the author
S. H. Kemper is an elusive early 20th-century author whose surviving published work is connected with The Atlantic. The clearest evidence available places Kemper as the author of the story "Woman's Sphere," which appeared in The Atlantic in April 1915 and was later listed again in the 1918 collection Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories; Second Series.
That anthology, edited by Charles Swain Thomas, gathered a wide range of contemporary short fiction, and Kemper's inclusion suggests a writer active in respected magazine circles of the period. The Atlantic also lists another piece, "O You Xenophon!," published in July 1920.
Beyond those publication records, reliable biographical details are hard to confirm from the sources found here. No trustworthy portrait page surfaced during the search, so it is better to leave the picture blank than guess.