Ford, Anne Adelaide, 1901-1993

Anne Adelaide Ford was born in Boston, Massachusetts on September 12, 1901 to Michael Joseph and Johanna (Cuthbert) Ford. Her siblings included Margaret (Ford) Kieran and John Cuthbert Ford, SJ. She attended Brookline High School and earned her BA from Boston University.

Ford began her career writing "variety news" for Boston newspapers. She then took a position as a press agent for the Theater Guild, promoting plays across the United States. She made connections with publishers by cross-promoting books that became Theater Guild plays. In about 1945 she became director of publicity for Little Brown and Company in New York and later held the same postion at Harcourt Brace & Company. She returned to Boston as director of publicity for Houghton Mifflin, a position she held from 1953 until the time of her retirement in 1970. She also wrote a series of occasional articles for the Boston Globe beginning in February 1970 called "Anne Ford remembers." Ford died on November 16, 1993 in Rockport, Massachusetts.