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

Elsie Singmaster
Singmaster c. 1920
BornElsie Singmaster
(1879-08-29)August 29, 1879
Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, U.S.
DiedSeptember 30, 1958(1958-09-30) (aged 79)
Macungie, Pennsylvania, U.S.
OccupationWriter
NationalityAmerican
Period1905–1950
GenreChildren's literature
Young adult fiction
Notable works
  • Swords of Steel

Early and personal life


Singmaster was born on August 29, 1879, in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania to parents of German ancestry. She was educated at Allentown High School and West Chester Normal School, before studying at Cornell University from 1898 to 1900. She then attended Radcliffe College, from which she graduated in 1907.

In 1912, she married musician and English professor Harold Steck Lewars. She added his surname to hers but continued to publish as Elsie Singmaster. She was pregnant with Lewars' child when he died at the age of 33 in March 1915. Their baby, Singmaster's only child, died two months later in May.


Writing career


Singmaster wrote many short stories and books between 1905 and 1950. Her first published short story was The Lèse-Majesté of Hans Heckendorn, in the November 1905 issue of Scribner's Magazine. Her first published book was When Sarah Saved the Day, in 1909. Her 1924 short story The Courier of the Czar earned a position of merit in the 1924 O. Henry Award[2] and, perhaps her most famous title, Swords of Steel, received a Newbery Honor in 1934. Her final work was It Was Once a Jail, published in The Philadelphia Inquirer in January 1950.

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


Death


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


Bibliography



References


  1. "Elsie Singmaster Lewars (1879-1958)". Macungie Historical Society. 2011. Retrieved July 31, 2017.
  2. Hill, Susan Colestock (2009). Heart Language: Elsie Singmaster and Her Pennsylvania German Writings. Penn State University Press. p. 190. ISBN 978-0271034812.
  3. Hill, Susan Colestock (2015). "Annotated Bibliography of Elsie Singmaster's Gettysburg Writings". Adams County History. 21: 59–77 – via The Cupola: Scholarship at Gettysburg College.
  4. Singmaster, Elsie (1923). The Hidden Road. Cambridge, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company.


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