Mary Noailles Murfree was a novelist born on January 24, 1850 in Tennessee. She is known for her works of fiction set in the Appalachian Mountains. Her net worth, biography, age, height, family, and career updates are available for those interested in learning more about her life and works.
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💰 Net worth: $100K - $1M
A turn-of-the-century American fiction writer, she is considered the first significant female author of Appalachian literature. Her novels include Down the Ravine and The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains; she also wrote numerous works of short fiction.
She studied at the Chegary Institute, a finishing school in Philadelphia.
She published under the pen name of Charles Egbert Craddock.
Her father was a successful Nashville lawyer. The Tennessee town of Murfreesboro was named after her grandfather, who was a colonel in the Revolutionary War.
She contributed to the Atlantic Monthly; Mary Jo Salter once edited this same publication.
