Martha Strudwick Young

Martha Strudwick Young
Born
Eli Shepperd

(1862-01-11)January 11, 1862
Newbern, Alabama, C.S.
DiedMay 9, 1941(1941-05-09) (aged 79)
Greensboro, Alabama, U.S.
Occupationwriter
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
Alma materLivingston Female Academy and State Normal School
RelativesJulia Strudwick Tutwiler (aunt)

Martha Strudwick Young (Jan. 11, 1862–May 9, 1941) was an American regionalist writer known for her recounting of Southern folk tales, fables, and songs of black life in the plantation era. She was admired by other writers for her skill with dialect. Young was inducted into the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame in 1986.

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