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 was a Newbery Honor recipient in 1934.
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.
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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]
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Singmaster died September 30, 1958, and was buried in Fairview Cemetery in Macungie, Pennsylvania.
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When Sarah Saved the Day: 1909
Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath: 1913
^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.
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