Georgia Wood Pangborn (1872–1955) was an American writer of novels and short stories. She is known as a writer of horror and the macabre.[1] She was the mother of Edgar Pangborn and Mary Pangborn.

Life

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Georgia Wood was born in Malone, New York, in 1872. She graduated from Smith College and married Harry Levi Pangborn in 1894. Pangborn lived for a time on Wall Street in Manhattan, New York, and was a member of the New York literary establishment. Her work was published in Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Monthly, and Colliers, among others. She died in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1955.[2]

Selected works

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Short stories

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  • "The Gray Collie" (1903)
  • "Cara" (1914)
  • "The Rescue" (1912)
  • "The Substitute" (1914)
  • "The Intruder" (1907)

Collected works

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  • The Wind at Midnight (1999)

References

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  1. ^ Salmonson, Jessica Amanda (1989). What did Miss Darrington see? : an anthology of feminist supernatural fiction. New York: Feminist Press at the City University of New York.
  2. ^ "Person Detail: Georgia Wood Pangborn - New York State Literary Tree". www.nyslittree.org. Archived from the original on 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2015-06-03.
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