Smith, Grace Kellogg, 1885-1987

Grace Kellogg was born in 1885 in Bangor, Maine. Her mother, Eva Mary Crosby Kellogg, was a travel book writer, and her father was a minister. Grace Kellogg grew up in Boston and attended Brookline High School. She got her start as a professional writer at age eight when Success Magazine paid her five dollars and published one of her poems. When she was seventeen, her first novel was serialized in The National Magazine . Kellogg majored in English and graduated from Smith College in 1908. While there, she was the editor-in-chief of the Smith College Monthly . She lived in Istanbul and taught English at the American College for Girls from 1910-13, when she married D. Griffith, an American instructor at Roberts College. Over the next ten years, Kellogg lived in New York and New Jersey, supported woman suffrage, worked in Margaret Sanger's office, had two sons and two daughters, worked as a journalist, and published several novels, including Arise and Go, The Beloved Tenant, Crosbys of Henry County Illinois, The House and The Silent Drum . She married her second husband, C.F. Shaw in 1936. After the death of her third husband Clarendon Waite Smith, whom she had married in 1942, Kellogg Smith returned to school at the University of Vermont where she earned an M.A. in 1953. A revised version of her master's thesis, "The Two Lives of Edith Wharton," was published in 1965. Late in her life, Kellogg Smith was a member of Women Strike for Peace and of the Committee for Non-Violent Action. She died July 26, 1987.

From the guide to the Grace Kellogg Smith Papers MS 146., 1885-1968, (Sophia Smith Collection)

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