Dorothy Donnell Calhoun (died December 2, 1963) was a writer and a magazine editor. [1]
Born in Maine, her parents were magazine writers and her sister Rachel became a medical doctor. [2] Calhoun graduated from Smith College and later married Harold Calhoun, a New York City lawyer. [3] [1]
Calhoun was the West Coast editor for Motion Picture Magazine and its sister publication Motion Picture Classic from 1927 to 1935. [1] [4] Later, she worked as an assistant to Frances Perkins, the Secretary of Labor under President Franklin Roosevelt, where she produced radio programs. As a writer, Calhoun wrote short stories, including the collection titled "Blue Gingham Folks". [1] She also wrote children's stories and plays and published letters about her travels. [5] [1] She was also involved in the film world writing for publications and selling her work to be adapted to film. [6] She worked on a screenplay for Richard Krebs and was a writer for "Sh Don't Wake the Baby", the 1915 film starring Dorothy Phillips. [7]
Ladies' Home Journal was an American magazine last published by the Meredith Corporation. It was first published on February 16, 1883, and eventually became one of the leading women's magazines of the 20th century in the United States. In 1891, it was published in Philadelphia by the Curtis Publishing Company. In 1903, it was the first American magazine to reach one million subscribers.
Dinah Maria Craik was an English novelist and poet. She is best remembered for her novel, John Halifax, Gentleman, which presents the mid-Victorian ideals of English middle-class life.
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Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn was an educator, author, social reformer and poet whose work was associated with the American Naturalist literary movement.
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Louise Varèse, also credited as Louise Norton or Louise Norton-Varèse, was an American writer, editor, and translator of French literature who was involved with New York Dadaism.
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Helen Sherman Griffith was an American author. An Iowan, she was the "prolific" author of the Letty Grey series of children's books, published by Penn Publishing Company of Philadelphia. She was the daughter of Hoyt Sherman and Sara Sherman, who was born and raised in Des Moines, Iowa at Hoyt Sherman Place. Helen's bedroom has been restored and is part of the Hoyt Sherman Place house museum.
Grace Helen Bailey was a writer of stories and song lyrics in the United States. Several of her stories were adapted to film. In 1913 she wrote "Christmas at Ellis Island". She also wrote "The Jew, a tale of San Francisco", "Little Israel, a story of San Francisco", "Kingley's Ride", and "Davie", published in Overland magazine in 1905. She was also published in The Woman's Magazine.
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Margaret Pollock Sherwood was an American professor of English literature and author of novels, short stories, poetry, and essays.
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