Margaret Deland
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About
An American novelist, short fiction writer, and memoirist, she is most famous for such small-town-America-themed works as Old Chester Tales (1898) and John Ward, Preacher (1888). She belonged to the literary realism movement.
Before fame
A prominent activist for women's rights, she at one point shared her home with a dozen unwed mothers.
Trivia
During World War I, she received a Legion of Honor Cross for her war-time relief work in France.
Family life
She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania. In 1880, she married Lorin Fuller Deland who, like her father, was a publisher.
Associated with
James Michener, born about fifty years after Deland, was another prominent Pennsylvania author.
