Honoré Willsie Morrow
(1880–1940)

Born Nora Bryant McCue. American author known for her well-researched novels, the best known being the "Great Captain" trilogy, of Abraham Lincoln. She divorced her first husband, Henry Elmer Willsie, in 1922, and married William Morrow, the publisher. Pen names: Honoré Willsie, Honoré Willsie Morrow, Honoré Morrow

Honoré Willsie Morrow

Works

(partial list)

  • The Heart of the Desert (Kut-le of the Desert) (1913) (PG; IA)
  • Still Jim (1915) (PG; IA)
  • Benefits Forgot: A story of Lincoln and mother love (1917) non-fiction (transcription project)
  • Lydia of the Pines (1917) (PG)
  • The Forbidden Trail (1919) (PG; IA)
  • The Enchanted Canyon (1921) (PG; IA)
  • Judith of the Godless Valley (1922)
    • Godless Valley (Everybody's magazine, 1922)
  • The Exile of The Lariat (1923)
    • The Lariat (1923 Mar-Nov, Everybody's) (6-part novel)
  • The Devonshers (1924) (sl. in Everybody's magazine, 1924) (external scan) (HT)
  • We Must March (1925)
    • We Must March (1925 Jun-Nov, Everybody's) (6-part novel)
  • Seven Alone (1926)
  • Splendor of God (1929)
  • Splendid Journey
  • Mary Todd Lincoln: an Appreciation of the Wife of Abraham Lincoln
  • Great Captain (1930) trilogy:
    • Forever Free (1927)
    • With Malice Toward None (1928)
    • The Last Full Measure (1930)
  • The Lincoln Stories of Honoré Morrow (1938), containing:
    • Benefits Forgot (1917)
    • Dearer Than All
    • The Lost Speech of Abraham Lincoln
  • Demon Daughter (1939) [her last book]

Works from magazines

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1940, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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