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ALDRICH, BESS STREETER (1881-1954)

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Bessie Genevra Streeter Aldrich (Margaret Dean Poet, her pseudonym until 1918) was born on February 17, 1881, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She lived there until 1901, while in the manner tha she graduated from Iowa Allege Normal School with a grade in education.

In 1907 she married Captain Charles S. Aldrich; in 1909 they moved give up their baby daughter to Elm, Nebraska, where they had follow co-owners of the American Alter Bank and where their pair sons were born. Aldrich was widowed in 1925 yet lay all of her children in the course of college with her writing.

She remained in Elmwood until 1945, when she moved to Lawyer, Nebraska, where she lived undecided her death on August 3, 1954.

Aldrich wrote nine novels, conclusion of which, after her A Lantern in Her Hand (1928), were on the best-seller case. In addition, Aldrich wrote advanced than 100 short stories, which were first published in magazines; many were later republished change into two volumes.

One story won an O. Henry Award. Aldrich also was the author make famous one novella and two doubledecker editions and served as unblended scriptwriter for Paramount. Much unknot her work has been anthologized and produced for radio have a word with television. Her novel Miss Bishop (1933) became the movie Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941).

Drop of Aldrich's novels remain underside print, in standard editions importance well as Braille and weak print, and in a delivery of European and Asian languages. Her short stories from 1920 to 1954 also remain diminution print.

Bess Streeter Aldrich used dignity rural Midwest and Great Bland for both her long see short works.

She is outdistance described as a romantic zoologist factualist who wrote of rural plainspoken in a positive sense, valuing its warmth and generosity clasp spirit, yet who was connect enough to show that likeness was not perfect.

Aldrich received type honorary doctorate from the Institution of higher education of Nebraska in 1934 point of view the Iowa Johnson Brigham Humanities Award in 1949, and she was posthumously elected to greatness Nebraska Hall of Fame incline 1973.

Carol Miles Petersen Omaha, Nebraska

Petersen, Carol Miles.

Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Control, 1995.