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Elsa Barker, born in 1869 in Leicester, Vermont, was an American poet and writer who, in 1912, began experiencing automatic writing while in Paris. During this period, she received over 100 letters that she claimed were channelled through her hand by the spirit of Judge David Patterson Hatch, a Los Angeles lawyer who had recently died. These letters, presented as a trilogy—Letters From a Living Dead Man, War Letters from the Living Dead Man, and Last Letters from the Living Dead Man—detail experiences and observations from the afterlife. Barker’s earlier literary career included her debut novel, The Son of Mary Bethel (1909), and the poetry collection The Frozen Grail and Other Poems (1910). Her work is often grouped with spiritualist writings and the automatic writing genre.
First publish date: 1914
Genre: Religious & Spiritual Fiction/Spiritual Fiction
Authors: Elsa Barker
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