The Able McLaughlins is a 1923 novel by Margaret Wilson. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1924. The story is about Wully McLaughlin, doughty but inarticulate young hero, returns from Grant's army to find that his sweetheart, Christie McNair, has fallen a victim, against her will, to the scapegrace of the community, Peter Keith. She has concealed her plight from every one, but cannot conceal it from him.
