Elia W. Peattie (1862–1935)
Author of The Shape of Fear
About the Author
Image credit: Elia Wilkinson Peattie (b.1862), Buffalo Electrotype and Engraving Co., Buffalo, N.Y.
Works by Elia W. Peattie
Pippins And Cheese: Being The Relation Of How A Number Of Persons Ate A Number Of Dinners At Various Times And Places (2007) 5 copies
The beleaguered forest 2 copies
The Grammatical Ghost 2 copies
Ghost Story Collection 003 2 copies
America in Peace and War 1 copy
The edge of things 1 copy
LibriVox Short Ghost and Horror Collection 040 — Author — 1 copy
Associated Works
Sunless Solstice: Strange Christmas Tales for the Longest Nights (2021) — Contributor — 58 copies, 3 reviews
Christmas Ghosts: Seventeen Great Ghost Stories in the Christmas Tradition (1987) — Contributor — 40 copies
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- Other names
- Hazenplug, Frank
Peattie, Elia Wilkinson - Birthdate
- 1862-01-15
- Date of death
- 1935-07-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA
- Places of residence
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Occupations
- journalist
novelist
poet
short story writer
playwright
travel writer (show all 8)
columnist
literary editor - Relationships
- Cleary, Kate M. (friend)
Peattie, Donald Culross (son)
Peattie, Roderick (son)
Peattie, Noel (grandson) - Organizations
- Chicago Tribune
Omaha World-Herald - Short biography
- Elia W. Peattie, née Wilkinson, was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, and moved with her family to Chicago, Illinois when she was young. She left school at age 14 but continued reading and writing. In 1883, she married Robert Burns Peattie, a journalist. The couple wrote stories together in the evenings to supplement his salary, and in 1886, Elia started writing for the Chicago Tribune. She soon became the first woman reporter for the Tribune. Two years later, the couple moved to Omaha, Nebraska, where Elia and her husband both worked for the Omaha World-Herald. Her career flourished, and she became the chief editorial writer for the paper. She also wrote a daily column called "A Word to the Women." She focused on many critical social issues of the day, including women's suffrage. She also contributed prolifically to leading magazines of the era, including Harper's Weekly. In 1888, she published a 700-page young people's history called The Story of America. The Northern Pacific Railroad then commissioned her to write a popular travel guide entitled Alaska: A Trip through Wonderland (1889). Peattie was considered an uncommon woman of her time, writing weird and supernatural fiction. Her stories included "A Grammatical Ghost (1898)," "A Michigan Man (1891)," and "The Shape of Fear (1898)." She eventually returned to Chicago and became literary editor of the Chicago Tribune.
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Statistics
- Works
- 25
- Also by
- 10
- Members
- 70
- Popularity
- #248,179
- Rating
- 3.4
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 66
- Languages
- 1