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Ruth Pine Furniss : ウィキペディア英語版 | Ruth Pine Furniss Ruth Pine Furniss (1893 – 1957), was an American writer who published several short stories and novels. ==Biography== Ruth Kellogg Pine Furniss was born on March 2, 1893, to Charles LeRoy and Grace Eddy Kellogg Pine in Lansingburg, New York.〔Hopkins, Timothy. (The Kelloggs in the Old World and The New ). San Francisco: Sunset Press, 1903. Accessed December 6, 2010.〕 She attended the Emma Willard School (Troy, New York) and Miss Porter’s School (Farmington, Connecticut). She studied short story writing with Blanche Colton Williams at Columbia University and went on to publish a number of short stories and novels.〔''Pelham Sun''. July 29, 1932.〕 In 1937, with the poet Weldon Kees, Furniss adapted her short story "Obsession" into a one-act play with the same title.〔Library of Congress Copyright Office, ''Catalog of Copyright Entries: Part I, Group 3, Dramatic Compositions and Motion Pictures, New Series, Volume 10 for the Year 1937, Nos. 1-12'' (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1938), 368.〕 It is believed Furniss suffered from bipolar disorder, which was treated with periods of institutionalization, shock-therapy, a topectomy, and ultimately, a lobotomy.〔Ruth Pine Furniss Papers. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.〕 Furniss’s writings drew on her struggle with illness and her exposure to various medical treatments, as can be seen in her novels ''Gay'' (1928), ''Snow: A Love Story'' (1929), and ''The Dreamland Tree'' (an unpublished novel completed in 1952 after Furniss received a topectomy and shock therapy). Furniss published ''The Layman Looks at Doctors'' (1929) under the pseudonyms S.W. and J.T. Pierce, who were a fictional couple.〔Ruth Pine Furniss Papers. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.〕 In 1912 Furniss married Dr. Henry Dawson Furniss (d. 1942), with whom she had five children, three of whom survived childhood (Henry Dawson, James P., and W. Todd).〔''Pelham Sun''. July 29, 1932.〕 The Furniss family lived in Pelham, New York, and in New York City. During World War II Furniss served as a Gray Lady with the Red Cross.〔''New York Times''. December 16, 1957.〕 Furniss was hospitalized at several points during her life, including periods at Pilgrim Psychiatric Center and Central Islip Psychiatric Center (Long Island).〔Ruth Pine Furniss Papers. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.〕 Furniss died of a heart attack in December 1957, at the age of 64.〔''New York Times''. December 16, 1957.〕
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