Emma Mills memorial collection, ca. 1930-ca. 1970.

Suckow, Ruth, 1892-1960

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Author and pacifist. From the description of Papers of Ruth Suckow, 1887-1988. (University of Iowa Libraries). WorldCat record id: 233105070 Author Ruth Suckow was born in Iowa and moved to Denver, Colo. to join her sister Emma (.d 1923) who had moved to Denver to seek relief from tuberculosis. Suckow graduated from the University of Denver, earning a B.A. degree (English) in 1917 and an M.A. in 1918. She worked as a graduate assistant for Dr. Ida Kruse McFarlane, head of th...

Gibbs, A. Hamilton (Arthur Hamilton), 1888-1964

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English author. From the description of Papers of A. Hamilton Gibbs [manuscript], undated. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 451276536 Arthur Hamilton Gibbs (1888-1964) was a British novelist and essay writer. From the guide to the A. Hamilton Gibbs Manuscripts, 1956-1962, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries) ...

Flavin, Martin, 1883-1967

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Martin Archer Flavin, author and playwright. Flavin wrote short stories, novels, screenplays, essays, and several plays that were produced on Broadway. Flavin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1943 for his novel, Journey in the Dark. The Martin Flavin Papers contain manuscripts, plays, memoirs, travel journals, essays, novels, short stories, correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, and scrapbooks. These papers document Flavin's writing career, family, and personal life. From the des...

Chute, B. J. (Beatrice Joy), 1913-1987

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Beatrice Joy Chute was born in 1913 in Minneapolis, MN. She worked as a secretary, educator, and author, writing books for children and adults and teaching creative writing at Barnard College. She died in 1987. Biographical Source: Something About the Author, vol. 53, p. 21-22. From the guide to the B. J. (Beatrice Joy) Chute Papers, 1940-1986, (University of Minnesota Libraries Children's Literature Research Collections [clrc]) ...

Reynolds, James, 1891-

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Epithet: of Red Lion Square, London British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001129.0x00003c James Reynolds, Irish painter and author and admirer of architect Andrea Palladio. Traveled extensively in Europe and the United States. From the description of Sketches for Palladio and of Monticello [manucript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 57466769 Epithet: called 'E L A Berwick', of...

Bonner, Paul Hyde

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Worthington, Marjorie Muir, 1900-1976

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Author who lived in France in the 1920s and 1930s and socialized with other American expatriate artists and writers. From the description of Papers, 1931-1976. (University of Oregon Libraries). WorldCat record id: 19545912 Marjorie Muir Worthington was born in 1900 in New York City. She initially aspired to be an artist and attended various art schools during her early years. While still in high school she began selling poems to magazines. Thus encouraged, she t...

Hobart, Alice Tisdale, 1882-1967

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Alice Tisdale Hobart was born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York on January 28, 1882. In 1910, Alice went to China to teach at a girls' school in Hangchow, where she met Earle Tisdale Hobart, an executive of the Standard Oil Company of New York. They married in 1914 and spent the early years of their marriage in Manchuria amid the turbulence that followed the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty. Alice began writing about her life in China and in 1916 she submitted an account of her encounter with Ma...

Chute, Marchette, 1909-1994

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Writer of history and literary biography, especially the lives of English poets of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. From the description of Correspondence, 1950-1974. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122481687 ...

Akeley, Mary L. Jobe, 1886-

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Explorer and author, joined several expeditions to Canada and Africa, noted for her expedition to the northern Canadian Rockies. Married Carl Akeley in 1924. Continued his work after his death in 1926, and became a special advisor at the American Museum of Natural History. From the description of Papers, 1859-1940 [microform]. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 41123496 Wife of Carl Akeley; she died in 1966. From the description of Papers, ...

Cloete, Stuart, 1897-

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South African novelist and rancher; b. in France; d. 1976. From the description of Stuart Cloete collection, 1927-1976. (Boston University). WorldCat record id: 70974925 British poet and novelist. From the description of Correspondence to Maxwell Struthers Burt, [1938?-1945?]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 122490282 ...

Inge, William

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American playwright. From the description of Come back, Little Sheba [manuscript], 1951 February 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647816320 William Inge, playwright. From the description of One act plays: typescript, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122627150 William Motter Inge, 1913-1973, was an American novelist, playwright, dramatist, and screenwriter. From the description of William Inge collection of p...

Seabrook, William, 1887-

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Rothenstein, John, 1901-1992

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Rothenstein (1901-1992) was an English author and Director of the Tate Gallery. Max Beerbohm was an English essayist, caricaturist, and parodist. From the description of Letters from the Beerbohm family and other correspondents, 1905-1957. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 82803710 Rothenstein (1901-1992) was an English author and Director of the Tate Gallery. From the guide to the Letters from the Beerbohm family and other correspondents, 1905-1957., (Ho...

Barry, Philip, 1896-1949

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American playwright Philip Jerome Quinn Barry was born on June 18, 1896 in Rochester, N.Y. He was the youngest of the four children of James Corbett Barry and Mary Agnes Quinn. James Barry was a successful marble and tile contracter whose family had emigrated from Ireland when he was ten. His wife, also of Irish descent, was a Philadelphian, daughter of the proprietor of a lumber business. Barry matriculated at Yale University in 1913, but, war service intervening, did not receive his B.A. until...