Christian Reid, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Christian Reid

American writer

Date of Birth: 05-Jul-1846

Place of Birth: Salisbury, North Carolina, United States

Date of Death: 24-Mar-1920

Profession: novelist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (pen name, Christian Reid; July 5, 1846 – March 24, 1920) was an American author who wrote over 50 novels, most notably The Land of the Sky. In 1870, Tiernan published her first novel, Valerie Aylmer.
In the following year, she published in Appletons' Journal a novel entitled Morton House, a story of Southern life.
Tiernan considered it to be her best work.
In 1887, she married James M.
Tiernan, of Maryland, and accompanied him to Mexico where he had mining interests.
There, she collected material for her novel, The Land of the Sun, and some Mexican short stories, notably The Pictures of Las Cruces, which appeared in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, and which was translated and published in L'Illustration of Paris.
After her husband's death in 1898, Tiernan made her home in New York City, but later returned to Salisbury, North Carolina, living in the same house in which she was born.
One of the best of her novels, The Land of the Sky, was set in western North Carolina.
Though she never made a claim to being a poet, some of her verses were published.In 1909, Tiernan was awarded the Laetare Medal by the University of Notre Dame, in Indiana.
This medal is given annually to a lay member of the Catholic Church for distinguished services in literature, art, science, or philosophy.
Tiernan's receipt of the medal was the first when it was awarded to a Southerner.