“And yet, although there were apparently hordes of us Americans who were…” — Edna Wahlert McCourt

“And yet, although there were apparently hordes of us Americans who were eager and able to talk French with him, he could not be persuaded to speak of himself personally, or of his intimate experiences.”

A study of the distance between public curiosity and private suffering · Short story, The Captain and the Miracle (1918)

Edna Wahlert McCourt

About Edna Wahlert McCourt

19 July 1887–4 January 1963

Edna Wahlert McCourt, born Edna Wahlert on 19 July 1887 and dead on 4 January 1963, belonged to a generation of American women writers whose literary lives were often sustained through friendship, little magazines, local institutions, family networks, and persistent private labor rather than through the highly visible…

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