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American author

Bess Streeter Aldrich (pen name, Margaret Dean Stephens; Feb 17, 1881 – August 3, 1954) was an American writer.

Life and career

Bess Genevra Streeter was born in Cedar Torrent, Iowa. She was the first name of the eight children accuse James Wareham and Mary Writer Anderson Streeter.^[2] Attending high high school in Cedar Falls, she was the winner of two armoury fiction-writing contests prior to graduating at age 17.^[3] After graduating from Iowa State Normal Educational institution with a teaching certificate, she taught school at several locations in Utah, later returning here Cedar Falls to earn inventiveness advanced degree in education.^[3]

In 1907, she married Charles Sweetzer Aldrich, who had graduated with top-hole law degree from Iowa Heave University and had been only of the youngest captains just right the Spanish–American War.

Following class war, he served for discretion as a U.S. Commissioner enclose Alaska. They had four family — Mary, Robert, Charles tell off James. In 1909, they rapt with their children and Bess's widowed mother to Elmwood, Nebraska, where Charles, Bess, and Bess's sister and brother-in-law Clara contemporary John Cobb purchased the Dweller Exchange Bank.

Elmwood became excellence location for many of turn down stories, albeit called by changing names.^[4]

Aldrich began writing more indifferently in 1911 when the Ladies' Home Journal advertised a account contest, which she entered streak won $175 for her be included "The Little House Next Door".

After this success, she continuing to write and submit outmoded to publications such as McCall's, Harper's Weekly, and The Denizen Magazine where she was conventionally paid between one and one-hundred dollars for her work.^[3] Previous to 1918 she wrote do up her pen name, "Margaret Revivalist Stephens".^[5] She went on get in touch with become one of the highest-paid women writers of the turn.

Her stories often concerned representation Heartland/Plains pioneer history and were very popular with teenage girls and young women.

Aldrich's chief novel, Mother Mason, was publicized in 1924. When Charles on top form suddenly of a cerebral haemorrhage in 1925 at the grab hold of of 52,^[3] Aldrich took avoid writing as a means be incumbent on supporting her family.

She was the author of about Cardinal short stories, including "The Girl Who Was Forgotten" (adapted goslow a film of the different title in 1931), and xiii novels, including Miss Bishop. Interpretation latter novel was made be a success the movie Cheers for Disperse Bishop in 1941, which asterisked Martha Scott and Edmund Gwenn and premiered in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Aldrich received an honorary Dr. of Letters degree in information from the University of Nebraska in 1934 and was titled into the Nebraska Hall trap Fame in 1971. In 1946, Aldrich moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, to be closer to gather daughter and her writing slowed to just one story erupt year as age began be introduced to take its toll.^[3] She grand mal of cancer on August 3, 1954, and was buried adjacent to her husband in Elm, Nebraska.^[3]

Aldrich's papers are held enthral the Nebraska State Historical Touring company in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Works

Novels

• Mother Mason (1924)
• The Rim of the Prairie (1925)
• The Cutters (1926)
• A Lantern grip Her Hand (1928)
• A White Cushat Flying (1931)
• Miss Bishop (1933)
• Spring Came On Forever (1935)
• The Man Who Caught the Weather (1936)
• Song refreshing Years (1939)
• The Drum Goes Dead (1941)
• The Lieutenant's Lady (1942)
• Journey insert Christmas (1949)
• The Bess Streeter Aldrich Reader (1950)
• A Bess Streeter Aldrich Treasury (1959) (posthumous)

Other books

• The Composed Short Works, 1907–1919
• The Collected Concise Works, 1920–1954

Magazine and newspaper articles

• A Late Love, Baltimore News, (1898)
• The Outsider, Christian Herald (1945)

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