*Open Window.
(134) DWIGHT, H. G. (for biography, see 1917) and TAYLOR, JOHN.
*Emerald of Tamerlane.
“ELDERLY SPINSTER” (MARGARET WILSON). Born in Iowa, Jan. 16, 1882. Graduated from University of Chicago, 1904. Lived in India for the most part, 1904 to 1916. Since then she has been resting, gardening, and farming. Chief interest, the Americanization of American children through the school in which she is teaching. First published story, “Taffeta Trousers,” Atlantic Monthly, December, 1917.
God’s Little Joke.
ELLERBE, ALMA ESTABROOK, and ELLERBE, PAUL LEE. Mrs. Ellerbe was born in Greenfield, Ind., and educated at Oxford College, Ohio. Chief interests, people, writing, and automobiling. First published magazine story, “The Requital,” Harper’s Magazine, September, 1903. Author of “The Rule of Three.” Mr. Ellerbe was born in Montgomery, Ala. Had one year in which he scrupulously refrained from study at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn. Now Assistant Chief, Americanization section, Council of National Defense. Chief interests: English poetry, music, writing, automobiling. First published story, “The Vacant Forty,” Lippincott’s Magazine, March, 1913. Has been chief naturalization examiner for the U. S. Department of Labor at Denver. Chautauqua lecturer. Mr. and Mrs. Ellerbe plan to do all their writing in collaboration, preferably in a cabin in the Colorado Rockies.
Citizen Paper.
FISHER, DOROTHY CANFIELD.
See CANFIELD, DOROTHY.
FREEDLEY, MARY MITCHELL. Born in Philadelphia, Feb. 14, 1894. Granddaughter of S. Weir Mitchell. Previous to her marriage she was much interested in the betterment of economic conditions relating to woman’s labor, and at one time organized and managed The Philadelphia Trades School for Girls. She is the wife of an actor, Vinton Freedley, and her interests are mainly of the stage and things theatrical. She has never done any previous writing and is at present chiefly concerned with the business of “being a woman” and the wife of a soldier.