Bess streeter aldrich biography of albert murphy

ALDRICH, BESS STREETER ()

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Bessie Genevra Streeter Aldrich (Margaret Dean Stevens, her pseudonym until ) was born on February 17, , in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She lived there until , when she graduated from Iowa State Normal School with a degree in education. In she married Captain Charles S.

Aldrich; in they moved with their baby daughter to Elmwood, Nebraska, where they had become co-owners of the American Exchange Bank and where their three sons were born. Aldrich was widowed in yet put all of her children through college with her writing.

Bess streeter aldrich biography of albert Bess Streeter Aldrich was one of Nebraska's most widely read and enjoyed authors. Her writing career spanned forty-some years, during which she published over short stories and articles, nine novels, one novella, two books of short stories, and one omnibus. In her work, she emphasized family values and recorded accurately Midwest pioneering history. Aldrich also served as a writer and consultant in Hollywood for Paramount Pictures. She returned to Cedar Falls and worked as Assistant Supervisor at her alma mater, receiving an advanced degree in

She remained in Elmwood until , when she moved to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she lived until her death on August 3,

Aldrich wrote nine novels, all of which, after her A Lantern in Her Hand (), were on the best-seller list. In addition, Aldrich wrote more than short stories, which were first published in magazines; many were later republished in two volumes.

One story won an O. Henry Award. Aldrich also was the author of one novella and two omnibus editions and served as a scriptwriter for Paramount. Much of her work has been anthologized and produced for radio and television. Her novel Miss Bishop () became the movie Cheers for Miss Bishop ().

All of Aldrich's novels remain in print, in standard editions as well as Braille and large print, and in a number of European and Asian languages. Her short stories from to also remain in print.

Bess Streeter Aldrich used the rural Midwest and Great Plains for both her long and short works.

Bess streeter aldrich biography of albert einstein Bess Streeter was born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. After graduating from Iowa State Normal School, she taught school at several locations in the West, later returning to Cedar Falls to earn an advanced degree in education. A writer since early childhood, she won a writing contest at age fourteen and another at seventeen. In , she married Charles Aldrich. They moved to Elmwood, Nebraska, where Charles, Bess, her widowed mother, and family friends invested and purchased a bank.

She is best described as a romantic realist who wrote of rural life in a positive sense, valuing its warmth and generosity of spirit, yet who was honest enough to show that it was not perfect.

Aldrich received an honorary doctorate from the University of Nebraska in and the Iowa Johnson Brigham Literature Award in , and she was posthumously elected to the Nebraska Hall of Fame in

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