Christian Reid
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| Born | Frances Christine Fisher July 5, 1846 Salisbury, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | March 24, 1920 (aged 73) Salisbury, North Carolina |
| Resting place | Chestnut Hill Cemetery, Salisbury, North Carolina |
| Pen name | Christian Reid |
| Occupation | writer, novelist |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | St. Mary's College |
| Notable works | The Land of the Sky |
| Notable awards | Laetare Medal |
| Spouse | James Marquis Tiernan (m. 1898) |
Frances Christine Fisher Tiernan (July 5, 1846 – March 24, 1920), who used the pen name Christian Reid, was a 19th-century American author who wrote over 50 novels including 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 stories, notably The Pictures of Las Cruces, which appeared in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine, and this 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 was 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.
Frances Fisher was born in Salisbury, North Carolina. Her parents were Colonel Charles Frederick and Elizabeth Clarissa (Caldwell) Fisher. Her mother was a Catholic; her father an Episcopalian. Colonel Fisher, was killed in the beginning of the American Civil War at the battle of Manassas, and his daughter remained loyal to his Confederate ideals to the end. The mother having died during Tiernan's infancy, the child was early on left as an orphan. The Fisher family was rich but the war caused the family to lose much of its money. The family lived at the northwest corner of Fulton and Innes Streets in Salisbury, North Carolina. As a child of three or four, before she had learned to form her letters, she would spin out long tales of fanciful invention, which she persuaded her aunt to transcribe.
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