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"The Able McLaughlins" is a novel by Margaret Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. It follows a family of Scotch Covenanters who settled the American prairies in the 1860s. The McLaughlin's oldest son Wully has just returned from the Civil War planning to marry his sweetheart Christie McNair, but for some reason, she won't talk to him anymore. Wully finds himself hurt and perplexed until he finds out that the cause of her rejection is the terrible secret she has been keeping...

Produktbeschreibung
"The Able McLaughlins" is a novel by Margaret Wilson that won the Pulitzer Prize in 1924. It follows a family of Scotch Covenanters who settled the American prairies in the 1860s. The McLaughlin's oldest son Wully has just returned from the Civil War planning to marry his sweetheart Christie McNair, but for some reason, she won't talk to him anymore. Wully finds himself hurt and perplexed until he finds out that the cause of her rejection is the terrible secret she has been keeping...
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Autorenporträt
Born and raised in Iowa, Margaret Wilson (1882-1973) attended the University of Chicago and served as a Presbyterian missionary in India before returning to the U.S. The year she published The Able McLaughlins she married a Scotsman she had known in India and moved with him to London, where she wrote another seven novels and The Crime of Punishment, a study of penal reform. She died in England at the age of 91.