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Zephine Humphrey
1874–1956
A thoughtful American writer with deep ties to Vermont, she wrote novels, essays, poems, and local history with a strong feeling for place. Her work often joined literary grace with a serious interest in social and spiritual questions.
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
Born in Philadelphia on December 15, 1874, Harriette Zephine Humphrey studied at Smith College and later became known simply as Zephine Humphrey. She built a wide-ranging writing career that included fiction, poetry, essays, and nonfiction, publishing books such as Over Against Green Peak and The Story of Dorset, Vermont.
In 1914, she married the artist Wallace Weir Fahnestock and moved to Dorset, Vermont, a place that became closely linked with her life and work. Vermont landscapes and community history shaped much of her writing, and she became especially associated with the state's literary life.
Humphrey died in Dorset on November 14, 1956. Her papers are preserved at the University of Vermont, which helps show the breadth of a career devoted to both imaginative writing and the memory of a place she clearly loved.