- Elia W. Peattie
Elia Wilkinson Peattie (
January 15 ,1862 ["Herringshaw's national library of American biography", 5 vols, 1909-14] -1935) was an American author, journalist and critic.Biography
Elia Wilkinson was the daughter of Frederick and Amanda (Cahill) Wilkinson. ["Men and Women of America", 1910] She was born in Kalamazoo,
Michigan , but moved with her family toChicago when she was young. She stopped attending school when she was fourteen, but kept up a reading habit. In 1883 she married Robert Burns Peattie, a Chicago journalist. She began writing short stories for newspapers, and became a reporter with the "Chicago Tribune " and subsequently the "Chicago Daily News ". In 1889 she moved toOmaha , becoming chief editorial writer on the "Omaha World-Herald ". She wrote for magazines including "Century", "Lippincott's Magazine ", "Cosmopolitan Magazine ", "St. Nicholas", "Wide Awake ", "The American ", "America", "Harper's Weekly ", and "San Francisco Argonaut ".In 1888 she was commissioned by Chicago publishers to write a young people's history of the United States, and wrote the seven-hundred page "The Story of America" in four months. Her novel "The Judge" won a $900 prize from the "
Detroit Free Press " in 1889, and was subsequently published in book form. Later in 1889 theNorthern Pacific Railroad employed her to visit and report onAlaska : "A Trip through Wonderland" became a popular guide-book. "With Scrip and Staff" (1891) was a story of the children's crusade.Peattie subsequently returned to Chicago and became literary editor of the "Chicago Tribune". ["Who's Who in America", 1908-9]
References
* Willard & Livermore, "A woman of the century", 1893
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