MacDowell, Katherine Sherwood [Bonner]

MacDowell, Katherine Sherwood [Bonner]( 1849–83),
Mississippi local-color writer, whose sketches were collected in Dialect Tales (1883) and Suwanee River Tales (1884). Like Unto Like (1878) is a semi-autobiographical novel set in the era of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Her later stories of life in the Tennessee mountains and southern Illinois were more realistic. During the early 1870s she lived in Boston and served as Longfellow's amanuensis. She wrote under the pseudonym Sherwood Bonner.