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Lorna Beers
Lorna Doone Beers (May 10, 1897 – June 5, 1989) was an American novelist, poet, memoirist, and author of children's books. The winner of an early Hopwood Award for fiction, Ms. Beers was viewed by editors at E.P. Dutton in New York as a writer with the literary potential and the mastery of Midwestern themes and voices to become another Ole Rolvaag or even Sinclair Lewis. Her novels are praised for their strong characterizations of modern women, their sensitivity to the forces active in a changing America, and their clear-eyed poet’s view of life in the northern prairies. Her three major novels were written in the ten-year period between 1922 and 1932.
==Early life and education==
She was born in Maple Plain, Minnesota, in 1897 to John Beers and Sara James Beers, a farming couple in their forties who had moved into the village and opened a hardware store and lumber yard just three years before Lorna's birth.〔Cited in a story about two generations of the John Beers family provided in the Community History section of the Maple Plains, Minnesota, website.〕 The youngest of five children (her siblings were Priscilla, Harry, Hilton, and Jessa), she grew up in a hardworking farming community which had been frontier only a few years earlier. Her mother Sara died when Lorna was 13. Beers described herself as going off to college (unusual for a young woman in Minnesota at the time) still wearing her waist-length blonde braids.〔Chambers, Lorna Beers. Personal interview with Jay Divine, Staunton, Virginia, December, 1974.〕
With her writing encouraged by her professors, she would graduate from the University of Minnesota and win a teaching assistantship in English there.〔Minutes, University of Minnesota Agricultural Committee, September 15, 1921. “Mrs. Lorna Beers Chambers as Teaching Fellow in the Department of Sociology for the year 1921-22, beginning September 19, at $600."〕 She would study later at the University of Michigan and George Washington University.〔According to a capsule biography provided by W. W. Norton Company on the inside dust jacket of Wild Apples and North Wind, W. W. Norton, 1966.〕 She marched for women’s suffrage,〔Chambers, Lorna Beers. Personal interview with Jay Divine, Staunton, Virginia, December, 1974.〕 and in 1920, just before her 23rd birthday, married a young businessman, Clyde Raymond (Ray) Chambers. Their son Richard was born in 1924.
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