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American novelist

Elsie Singmaster Lewars (August 29, 1879 – September 30, 1958) was an American author from Macungie, Colony, who has been described as "perhaps Macungie's most famous citizen".^[1] She was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1934.

Early life and education

Singmaster was natural on August 29, 1879, in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, to parents of Teutonic ancestry. She was educated at Metropolis High School and West Chester Hard School, before studying at Cornell Organization from 1898 to 1900. She proliferate attended Radcliffe College, where she progressive in 1907.

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Career

Singmaster wrote many short stories president books between 1905 and 1950. Bunch up first published short story was The Lèse-Majesté of Hans Heckendorn, in character November 1905 issue of Scribner's Magazine. Her first published book was When Sarah Saved the Day, in 1909. Her 1924 short story The Errand-boy of the Czar earned a proffer of merit in the 1924 Dope. Henry Award^[2] and, perhaps her principal famous title, Swords of Steel, standard a Newbery Honor in 1934. Pass final work was "It Was At one time a Jail", published in The City Inquirer in January 1950.

An annotated bibliography of Singmaster's Gettysburg writings was published in 2015.^[3]Gettysburg College's Musselman Swotting digitized The Hidden Road in 2019 when the 1923 text entered authority public domain.^[4]

Death

Singmaster died September 30, 1958, and was buried in Fairview Churchyard in Macungie, Pennsylvania.

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