The Able McLaughlins

New York: Harper and Brothers, (1923).

Price: $2,250.00

Hardcover. First edition in second issue dust jacket (lacking the "Book Sellers Reorder Coupon" on the bottom of the rear flap. Spine gilt slightly tarnished else very near fine in an attractive, very good or better dust jacket with a short internally repaired split, a thin chip along the edge of the spine fold, and some small chips at the crown. The sixth novel to win the Pulitzer Prize, as well as winner of the Harper Prize Novel Contest.6.

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Item #347395 The Able McLaughlins. Margaret WILSON.
The Able McLaughlins
The Able McLaughlins

Margaret Wilson
birth name: Margaret Wilhemina Wilson
born: 1/16/1882
died: 10/6/1973

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Biography

Wilson, born in Iowa, found missionary work in foreign lands disturbing because of the demands it made on her compassion. She returned to the United States to teach for a while and then began writing novels. Both The Able McLaughlins (1923), Pulitzer Prize 1924, and Law and the McLaughlins (1936), a sequel, deal with the life of Scottish pioneers in Iowa. Wilson wrote frankly from a woman's viewpoint for women readers. Among her other novels are The Kenworthys (1925), Daughters of India (1928), One Came Out (1932), The Valiant Wife (1933), and Devon Treasury Mystery (1939). In 1923 Wilson married G.D. Turner of Oxford, and moved to England. - Benet's Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literaturemore

Collecting tips:

The Able McLaughlins (1923) is her only book that is avidly sought after. We managed to find nice jacketed copies pretty easily for the first two Pulitzer Prize collections we helped put together, but haven't seen a jacketed copy since. The Iowa-born author married a prison warden, and her 1932 novel One Came Out, about a prison warden and his wife, (and which might have autobiographical elements to it, we don't know) is uncommon in a nice example of the fragile silver foil-type jacket it originally came equipped with.more