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Idella Purnell
Idella Purnell (April 1, 1901 – December 1, 1982) (also known as Idella Purnell Stone and Ikey Stone) was an academic, librarian, teacher, and children's book author.
==Biography==
She was born in Guadalajara, Mexico, to the dentist George Edward Purnell and his wife Idella. She became a teacher in the primary schools of Guadalajara at a very early age, in 1915. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where the poet Witter Bynner was one of her teachers and she served as an associate editor of the literary magazine ''The Occident''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/uthrc/00127/hrc-00127.html )〕〔She contributed a poem to (''W.B. in California: A Tribute'' )〕 After graduating from the university in 1922, she returned to Guadalajara and became a secretary in the American Consulate there, continuing in that position through 1924. In 1923, she started the poetry magazine ''Palms'', which she continued to publish until 1930. In 1925, she served as the head of the foreign book department at the Los Angeles Public Library. She moved to Aberdeen, Washington for a short time and then returned to Guadalajara. In 1932, she served as the dean and organizer of the first summer session at the University of Guadalajara. Beginning in 1935, she opened a gold mine at Ameca, Mexico, remaining there through 1937. She also began publishing fiction at about this time. Beginning in 1938, she taught creative writing in Los Angeles. During World War II, she was a riveter for Douglas Aviation and Fletcher Aviation. In 1957, she became a practitioner of Scientology, and remained one through 1966, serving briefly as the director of the Center for Dianetics and Scientology in Pasadena, California. She died in Los Angeles in 1982.〔''Contemporary Authors Online'', Gale, 2009. Reproduced in ''Biography Resource Center'', Farmington Hills, Mich: Gale, 2009. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/BioRC.〕
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