Edna Wahlert McCourt — a remark

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“Even a dumb man, I believed, would manage to convey to any willing listener a chronicle of his own little story.”

Affirming the human urge to make experience understood · Short story, The Captain and the Miracle (1918)

About Edna Wahlert McCourt

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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