← Edward Payson RoeA Face Illuminedby Edward Payson RoeFind on Amazon↗About the authorEdward Payson RoeEdward Payson Roe was a enormously popular religious and domestic novelist whose Barriers Burned Away and many other titles sold in the millions, making him one of the bestselling American authors of the Gilded Age.More by Edward Payson RoeBarriers Burned AwayNovel of faith and love tested by destruction in post-Civil War Chicago fire→Opening a Chestnut Burr→A Knight of the Nineteenth Century→From Jest to Earnest→