Elsie Singmaster

Elsie Singmaster

was born in Pennsylvania in 1879, graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Radcliffe, and died in Gettysburg in 1958. During her 40-year writing career, she published hundreds of short stories and 38 books, most notably Basil Everman (1921) and Bennett Malin (1922).

Lesley J. Gordon

is Associate Professor of History at the University of Akron and author of General George E. Pickett in Life and Legend.