Margaret Ayer Barnes (1886–1967)
Autore di Years of Grace
Sull'Autore
Fonte dell'immagine: Bryn Mawr College Library Special Collections
Opere di Margaret Ayer Barnes
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1886-04-08
- Data di morte
- 1967-10-26
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Luogo di residenza
- Pennsylvania, USA
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA - Istruzione
- Bryn Mawr College
- Attività lavorative
- playwright
novelist
short story writer - Relazioni
- Fairbank, Janet Ayer (sister)
- Breve biografia
- Margaret Ayer Barnes was born in Chicago, Illinois, to a family that took a keen interest in civic affairs. Her older sister Janet Ayer Fairbank became a well-known suffragist and writer. Margaret graduated from Bryn Mawr with a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy in 1907. In 1910, she married Cecil Barnes, a prominent Chicago lawyer, with whom she had three sons. During these years, she served as alumnae director of Bryn Mawr and helped organize the Bryn Mawr Summer School for Women Workers in Industry. In 1926, at age 40, her life changed dramatically when she was in an auto accident while vacationing in France and suffered a broken back, skull, and ribs. During her slow recovery, she took up writing with the encouragement of Edward Sheldon, a playwright whom she had met as a child. Between 1926 and 1930, she wrote several short stories and three plays, including a highly successful 1928 play adapted from Edith Wharton's novel The Age of Innocence. In 1931, she won the Pulitzer Prize for her first novel, Years of Grace. Over the next eight years, she published four more novels, including Westward Passage (1931) and Edna His Wife (1935).
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 9
- Utenti
- 232
- Popolarità
- #97,292
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 8
- ISBN
- 8
- Lingue
- 1