Myrta Lockett Avary

Myrta Lockett Avary (December 7, 1857 – February 14, 1946) was an American writer and journalist. Her books include Dixie After the War, The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens (1910) and Uncle Remus and the Wren's Nest (1913). She died on February 14, 1946, in Atlanta.

Life Myrta Lockett was born in Halifax County, Virginia on December 7, 1857. She was born to Harwood and Augusta Lockett. She married Georgian physician James Corbin Avary in 1884 and moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Avary wrote for more publications there, such as the Christian Herald.

In 1908, she returned to Atlanta, and continued working in journalism. She glorified lynchings and the terror of the Ku Klux Klan and – along with other authors like Thomas Dixon Jr. – "deformed the reality of the white counterrevolution during Reconstruction".

Four years later, in 1910, the next work that Avary published was The Recollections of Alexander H. Stephens. Stephens had been the Vice President of the Confederate States of America and, while in Union custody, he kept a journal, which Avary would later publish.

Myrta Lockett Avary's final work was Uncle Remus and the Wren's Nest, of Joel Chandler Harris and his Home in 1913.

Descendants Academy Award-winning film writer, producer, and director Roger Avary is a descendant of Myrta Lockett Avary.