|
Ruth Cranston (November 14, 1887 – April 2, 1956)〔Bayles, Allison L. (The eternal triangle: the formula for a full life ), p. 134 (1988) (states she was born in 1889)〕 was an American author and lecturer on religion and other subjects. A daughter of Methodist Bishop Earl Cranston, Ruth Cranston was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. She was taught by tutors in France and Switzerland, and traveled frequently with her family on her father's missionary work. She returned to the United States for college, and graduated from Goucher College in 1908.〔(4 April 1956). (Ruth Cranston, Writer, Lecturer ), ''The New York Times''〕 While in college she wrote three articles on what women can do after graduation, which were published in ''The Delineator''. She then went to travel abroad, first to Vienna, where she penned some articles for American publications.〔(Anne Warwick ), ''The Bookseller, Newsdealer and Stationer'', March 1, 1915, p. 206, 218〕 Turning to writing novels, she proceeded to publish a number of novels under the pseudonym Anne Warwick,〔("Anne Warwick", Zeta ), ''The Alpha Phi Quarterly, June 1914, Vol. XXVI, No.3, p. 299-300〕 including seven novels by 1915.〔(20 March 1915). (Seven Novels in Five Busy Years ), ''The Sun (New York)'', p. 8〕 Her first novel, ''Compensation'' (1911), caused a stir in Washington, D.C. social circles.〔(13 May 1912). (Bishop's Daughter Is Author ), ''The Washington Herald'', p. 2, col. 3〕〔 She married William Bleecher Newlin in London in July 1911.〔(21 July 1911). (Wedded in London - W.B. Newlin Married to Daughter of Bishop Earl Cranston ), ''The New York Times''〕 Her last Warwick book was published in 1918. Cranston returned to the United States in 1919, after working for close to a year with the Red Cross, and by this time apparently divorced.〔(1 June 1919). (With Authors and Publishers ), ''The New York Times''〕 She later worked in Geneva for ten years promoting international cooperation movements. Her books published under her own name, which came in her later years, focused on non-fiction and religious subjects, including a biography of Woodrow Wilson (Cranston had gone to college to Wilson's daughters), a history of major religions (''World Faith''),〔(22 August 201). (Dan Gediman, Ruth Cranston and This I Believe ), ''The Bob Edwards Show'' (featuring an essay on religious belief by Cranston recorded in the 1950s)〕 and ''The Miracle of Lourdes'' (1955) about the Our Lady of Lourdes shrine. She lived in Sierra Madre, California in her later years, and died at St. Luke's Hospital on April 2, 1956, while on a lecture tour. Her ''New York Times'' obituary did not mention her early writings as Anne Warwick.〔 ''The Miracle of Lourdes'' was last reissued, in an expanded version, in 1988. ==Selected bibliography== * ''The League That Did Not Fail'' (1944) * ''The Story of Woodrow Wilson'' (1945) * ''World Faith: The Story of the Religions of the United Nations'' (1946) * ''What We All Believe'' (1951) * ''The Miracle of Lourdes'' (1955) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Cranston」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|