Author:Honoré Willsie Morrow

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Honoré Willsie Morrow
(1880–1940)

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Born Nora Bryant McCue. American author known for her well-researched novels, the best known being the "Great Captain" trilogy, of Abraham Lincoln. She divorced her first husband, Henry Elmer Willsie, in 1922, and married William Morrow, the publisher. Pen names: Honoré Willsie, Honoré Willsie Morrow, Honoré Morrow

United States authors / Biographists / Novelists

Works

The Heart of the Desert (Kut-le of the Desert) (1913) (PG; IA)
Still Jim (1915) (PG; IA)
Benefits Forgot: A story of Lincoln and mother love (1917) non-fiction (transcription project)
Lydia of the Pines (1917)
The Forbidden Trail (1919) (PG; IA)
The Enchanted Canyon (1921) (PG; IA)
Judith of the Godless Valley (1922)
- Godless Valley (Everybody's magazine, 1922)
The Exile of The Lariat (1923)
- The Lariat (1923 Mar–Nov, Everybody's) (6-part serial)
The Devonshers (1924) (sl. in Everybody's magazine, 1924) (external scan) (HT)
We Must March (1925)
- We Must March (1925 Jun–Nov, Everybody's) (6-part serial)
Seven Alone (1926)
Splendor of God (1929)
Splendid Journey
Mary Todd Lincoln: an Appreciation of the Wife of Abraham Lincoln
Great Captain (1930) trilogy:
- Forever Free (1927)
- With Malice Toward None (1928)
- The Last Full Measure (1930)
The Lincoln Stories of Honoré Morrow (1938), containing:
- Benefits Forgot (1917)
- Dearer Than All
- The Lost Speech of Abraham Lincoln
Demon Daughter (1939) [her last book]

Works from magazines

What is America: a series on immigration(Collier's, Nov 9, 1912 to —) [IA]
"Beatrice and the Rose" (ss) Munsey's Magazine June 1906
"Afraid of the Dark" (ss) Harper's Weekly, Jan 10, 1914
Desert Justice (1921, Everybody's) (novella)
"The Pinto Stallion" (1921, Everybody's) (ss)
"Find the Maverick" (1921, Everybody's) (ss)
"Breaking the Blue Roan" (1921, Everybody's) (ss)
"The Swimming Master" (1922 June, The Red Book Magazine) (ss)
"The Adopted Mother" (1922, The Century Magazine) (autobiographical article)

Longer works

Still Jim (Dec 1914 to May 1915, Everybody's Magazine) (6-part serial) (illus. J. Scott Williams)
"Godless Valley" (1922 Feb-May, Everybody's Magazine) (4-part serial)
The Lariat (1923 Mar-Nov, Everybody's) (6-part serial)
We Must March (1925 Jun-Nov, Everybody's) (6-part serial)

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1930.

This author died in 1940, so works by this author are in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 84 years or less. These works may be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

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