Margaret Prescott Montague

Margaret Prescott (or Preston) Montague (29 November 1878 White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia – 26 September 1955, Richmond, Virginia) was an American short story writer, and novelist.^[1] Her middle name is sometimes attributed as Preston before changing to Prescott.^[2]

Her work appeared in Harper's among other places.^[3]

Her novels were adapted into the films Linda (1929), Calvert's Valley (1922), Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge (1920) and Seeds of Vengeance (1920).^[4]

Awards

• 1919 O. Henry Award

Works

• Deep channel. Atlantic Monthly Press. 
• The Sowing of Alderson Cree. The Baker & Taylor company. 1907. 
• In Calvert's Valley. The Baker & Taylor Company. 1908.  (reprint. Kessinger Publishing, LLC. 2007. ISBN 978-0-548-25964-1. )
• Closed doors: studies of deaf and blind children. Houghton Mifflin Company. 1915. 
• Of water and the Spirit. E.P. Dutton & Company. 1916. 
• "On Authors". Atlantic classics. Atlantic Monthly Press. 1918. 
• Uncle Sam of Freedom Ridge. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1920. 
• England to America. Doubleday, Page & Company. 1920. 
• Up Eel River. The Macmillan company. 1928. 

Stories

• "The Will to Go". The Atlantic monthly. 127. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1921. 
• "Why It Was W-On-The-Eyes". The Atlantic monthly. 111. Atlantic Monthly Co. 1913. 
• Charles Swain Thomas, ed. (1918). "Of Water and the Spirit". Atlantic narratives: modern short stories. The Atlantic Monthly Press. 
• "England to America". O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1919. BiblioBazaar, LLC. 2008. ISBN 978-0-554-33436-3. 

References

External links

• Works by Margaret Prescott Montague at Project Gutenberg
• Works by Margaret Preston Montague at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Margaret Prescott Montague at Internet Archive
• Works by Margaret Prescott Montague at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)