Honoré Willsie Morrow

Honoré Willsie Morrow (, McCue; February 19, 1880 – April 12, 1940) was an American novelist and short story writer, as well as a magazine editor. Traveling to every state of the Union with her first husband, She was a descendant of New England pioneers of the West. Her parents were William Dunbar McCue (1846-1922) and Lillian Bryant Head (1852-1902). Her siblings were Philip, Helen, Cornelia, and Lydia. Her family's most important possession was their library of choice books. Here, as a child, she read the masters of English literature.

Morrow received her collegiate training in the writing of English at the University of Wisconsin (BA, 1902), where she earned a local reputation for her work on college magazines.

Career

On August 1, 1904, in Blooming Grove, Wisconsin, she married Henry Elmer Willsie (1868-1948),

Mr. Willsie hoped to become an inventor, while Mrs. Willsie was determined to become a novelist. Both felt that they needed the opportunities of the metropolis. About 1910, they came to New York City.

Beginning in 1914 and for the next five years, she served as editor of The Delineator. Morrow gave up executive work in 1919 to devote herself to fiction writing. In New York City, on April 24, 1923, she married the publisher, William Morrow (1873-1931). She was the mother of four children, and her residence in High Brixham, named "Heathstones", was created by the joining of two cottages. For six years, she served as president of the Brixham Literary and Debating Society.

In January 1940, she visited a sister in New Haven, Connecticut. Long ill, Honoré Morrow died at the Hospital of Saint Raphael on April 12, 1940.

Selected works and adaptations

Novels The Heart of the Desert, 1913 Still Jim, 1915 Lydia of the Pines, 1917 Benefits Forgot: A Story of Lincoln and Mother Love, 1917 The Forbidden Trail, 1919 The Enchanted Canyon, 1921 Judith of the Godless Valley, 1922 The Exile of the Lariat, 1923 The Devonshers, 1924 The Lost Speech of Abraham Lincoln, 1925 On to Oregon!: The Story of a Pioneer Boy, 1926 Let the King Beware Demon Daughter, 1939 The Great Captain trilogy Forever Free, 1927 With Malice Toward None, 1928 The Last Full Measure, 1930

Short stories "Fighting Blood", 1925

Film adaptations Seven Alone (1974) - adaptation of On to Oregon!: The Story of a Pioneer Boy