"Be it Ever So Humble" - a short story by Louise Shallit

Here's a short story entitled "Be it Ever So Humble" that appeared in Story magazine, Vol. 27, No. 115 (September-October 1945) by my mother, Louise Lee Outlaw. I think this may have been the first short story she published in a national magazine, although she had been writing for newspapers since 1938. Although it doesn't display her at the height of her powers, there are some very nice lines.

As an interesting footnote, another story in the same issue was written by Joseph Heller, who, of course, later became famous as the author of Catch-22.

Louise Shallit (1919-2009)

My mother, Louise Shallit, died this morning at 12:55 AM.

More information can be found here.

The obituary from the Inquirer is here.

And the obituary from the Daily News is here.