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Zephine Humphrey
1874–1956
A thoughtful Vermont writer, she built a loyal readership with fiction and essays rooted in place, memory, and everyday feeling. Her work often reflects a calm, observant voice shaped by life in New England.
1 Audiobook
Atlantic Narratives: Modern Short Stories
by Elizabeth Ashe, Henry Seidel Canby, Cornelia A. P. (Cornelia Atwood Pratt) Comer, Charles Caldwell Dobie, Madeleine Z. (Madeleine Zabriskie) Doty, H. G. (Harrison Griswold) Dwight, John Galsworthy, Katharine Fullerton Gerould, Katharine Butler Hathaway, Zephine Humphrey, Mary Lerner, F. J. Louriet, E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas, Margaret Lynn, C. A. Mercer, Margaret Prescott Montague, E. (Edith) Nesbit, Anne Douglas Sedgwick, Dallas Lore Sharp, Margaret Pollock Sherwood, Ernest Starr, Amy Wentworth Stone, Arthur Russell Taylor
About the author
Harriette Zephine Humphrey Fahnestock, usually published as Zephine Humphrey, was born in Philadelphia on December 15, 1874, and became known as an American writer based in Vermont. She graduated from Smith College in 1896 and later settled in Dorset, where she developed a strong connection to the region and its literary community.
She wrote fiction, short essays, and other prose, and achieved notable regional popularity for books that drew on landscape, character, and quiet reflection. Sources from the University of Vermont also place her among the circle of Vermont writers that included Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah N. Cleghorn.
Humphrey died in Dorset, Vermont, on November 14, 1956. A surviving portrait appears on her Wikipedia page as a drawn profile rather than a photographic likeness, but it is a verified image associated with her.