Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman

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Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (October 31, 1852 - March 13, 1930) was a prominent 19th-century American author. When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential. She produced more than two dozen volumes of published short stories and novels. In April 1926, Freeman became the first recipient of the William Dean Howells Medal for Distinction in Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. She died in Metuchen and was interred in Hillside Cemetery in Scotch Plains, New Jersey. In this book: The Wind in the Rose-bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural Pembroke, A Novel The Shoulders of Atlas