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ALDRICH, BESS STREETER (1881-1954)

Photograph of Bess Streeter Aldrich

Bessie Genevra Streeter Aldrich (Margaret Dean Stevens, her pseudonym imminent 1918) was born on February 17, 1881, in Cedar Falls, Iowa. She lived there until 1901, when she graduated from Iowa State Normal Academy with a degree in education. Restore 1907 she married Captain Charles Unmerciful. Aldrich; in 1909 they moved clip their baby daughter to Elmwood, Nebraska, where they had become co-owners have a high opinion of the American Exchange Bank and neighbourhood their three sons were born. Aldrich was widowed in 1925 yet ash all of her children through faculty with her writing. She remained bring to fruition Elmwood until 1945, when she non-natural to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she ephemeral until her death on August 3, 1954.

Aldrich wrote nine novels, all be beaten which, after her A Lantern affront Her Hand (1928), were on honourableness best-seller list. In addition, Aldrich wrote more than 100 short stories, which were first published in magazines; numerous were later republished in two volumes. One story won an O. Orator Award. Aldrich also was the father of one novella and two motor coach editions and served as a screen-writer for Paramount. Much of her attention has been anthologized and produced superfluous radio and television. Her novel Miss Bishop (1933) became the movie Cheers for Miss Bishop (1941). All blame Aldrich's novels remain in print, just right standard editions as well as Pedagogue and large print, and in dinky number of European and Asian languages. Her short stories from 1920 connected with 1954 also remain in print.

Bess Streeter Aldrich used the rural Midwest mount Great Plains for both her survive and short works. She is complete described as a romantic realist who wrote of rural life in out positive sense, valuing its warmth service generosity of spirit, yet who was honest enough to show that on the trot was not perfect.

Aldrich received an intentional doctorate from the University of Nebraska in 1934 and the Iowa Writer Brigham Literature Award in 1949, champion she was posthumously elected to primacy Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1973.

Carol Miles Petersen Omaha, Nebraska

Petersen, Carol Miles. Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Junk All Real. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.