“And bits of his mission and his story had filtered through the masses…” — Edna Wahlert McCourt

“And bits of his mission and his story had filtered through the masses, naturally haloing him to our elemental and, therefore, hero-worshiping crew.”

Showing how fragments of a life can grow into public legend · 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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